Insider Threat Assessment
Comprehensive evaluation of your organization's ability to prevent, detect, and respond to threats originating from within. Our assessment examines technical controls, behavioral indicators, access management, and organizational culture to identify and mitigate insider risks.
In scope
- Privileged access review
- Data loss prevention assessment
- User behavior analytics evaluation
- Authorization control review
- Separation of duties analysis
- Logging and monitoring capabilities
- Insider threat program evaluation
- HR policy review
You receive
- Insider risk assessment report
- Control gap analysis
- Insider threat program roadmap
- Behavioral indicator framework
- Technical control recommendations
- Policy enhancement guide
- Insider threat detection playbook
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Essential Insider Risk Assessment
$35K
Insider risk assessment for up to 500 employees: privileged access review, authorization and separation-of-duties analysis for up to 3 critical systems, logging and monitoring capability review, HR policy review, and a control gap report.
- employees
- 500
- Privileged access review
- Authorization and separation-of-duties analysis for up to 3 critical systems
- Logging and monitoring capability review
- HR and offboarding policy review
- Insider risk assessment report and control gap analysis
- — DLP and user behavior analytics evaluation
- — Insider threat program design
- — Detection playbook
- — Culture assessment
Comprehensive Insider Threat Program
$60K
Insider risk assessment for up to 2,500 employees and up to 10 critical systems. Adds DLP assessment, user behavior analytics evaluation, existing program evaluation, behavioral indicator framework, program roadmap, and a detection playbook.
- employees
- 2500
- Everything in the Essential tier, for up to 10 critical systems
- Data loss prevention assessment
- User behavior analytics evaluation
- Behavioral indicator framework
- Insider threat program roadmap
- Insider threat detection playbook
- — Custom analytics and detection rule development
- — Integration of monitoring tools
- — Organizational culture assessment
Enterprise Insider Risk Management
$95K
No fixed headcount cap - scoped to the organization. Adds custom detection analytics (up to 15 use cases) in the client's SIEM/UBA, integration of HR, access and DLP signals into monitoring, and an organizational culture assessment with staff interviews.
- Everything in the Comprehensive tier
- Up to 15 custom insider detection use cases built in the client's tooling
- Integration design for HR, identity and DLP signals
- Organizational culture assessment with surveys and interviews
- Governance model with legal, HR and security roles
- — Monitoring tool licences
- — Ongoing insider threat analyst staffing
- — Individual employee investigations
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a security assessment engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Scoping
Systems, sites, stakeholders and the question the assessment must answer.
You see · Your objectives and constraints.
02Discovery & evidence
Documents, configurations and interviews, plus technical testing where the service includes it.
You see · Access and time with key people.
03Analysis
Findings rated by risk to your business, not by a generic score.
You see · A prioritized view of your risk.
04Report & debrief
Executive summary, findings and a remediation roadmap, walked through with your team.
You see · The report and the debrief.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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