{"id":226595,"date":"2026-03-23T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/the-insider-threat-rises-again\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T05:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:15:29","slug":"the-insider-threat-rises-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/the-insider-threat-rises-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The insider threat rises again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4143393\/the-insider-threat-rises-again.html\">The insider threat rises again<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4143393\/the-insider-threat-rises-again.html\">https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4143393\/the-insider-threat-rises-again.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-23 03:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.csoonline.com\">www.csoonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy background is in the intelligence community, where we studied insider threat through a well-established lens: ego, ideology, and economics. Those motivations haven\u2019t changed. What\u2019s changed is the operating environment and who\/what qualifies as an insider,\u201d says Chris Cochran, field CISO and vice president of AI security at the SANS Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s no longer just employees. It\u2019s contractors, fraudulent hires who gained access through identity fraud, and now AI agents operating with persistent, privileged access,\u201d he says. \u201cA misconfigured agent is a superuser that never sleeps. A compromised agent is an adversary with legitimate credentials moving at machine speed. If it has trusted access and can act on data, it\u2019s an insider, witting or unwitting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shift to remote work, Cochran adds, also removed physical and psychological barriers to insider risks. \u201cDownloading data to a personal device doesn\u2019t feel like espionage, and that trivialization is the risk,\u201d he says. \u201cLayer on economic pressure: While companies freeze hiring and suppress raises, and you have a recipe for witting insider threat at scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4143393\/the-insider-threat-rises-again.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The insider threat rises again https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4143393\/the-insider-threat-rises-again.html Publish Date: 2026-03-23 03:02:00 Source Domain: www.csoonline.com \u201cMy background&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4143393-0-50249300-1774249340-shutterstock_2081373397.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-226595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226597,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226595\/revisions\/226597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}