Data securityTips for protection against internal cyber attacks
Companies consider external hacker attacks to be the greatest security risk. However, their own employees in particular can use their extensive access rights to misuse data. The IT security company Brainloop provides tips against data loss by internal perpetrators.
Introduce differentiated access rights: Brainloop advises companies to provide employees from different departments with the appropriate access rights. This fulfills the security objective of the need-to-know principle: if documents and data records are not immediately required for a task, the respective employee is not granted access. Different levels of access allow so-called "Chinese walls" to be erected within the company to prevent the exchange of information between different departments. In this way, the extent of data loss can be limited.