Detecting insider threats

The objective of this project is to come up with ways to recognize insider threats. An insider threat comes from within an organization where people such as former or current employees or business associates intend to inflict harm on the company. It is advantageous to be able to identify a person’s...

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Main Author: Lai, Rachel
Other Authors: Tan Yap Peng
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/67962
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:The objective of this project is to come up with ways to recognize insider threats. An insider threat comes from within an organization where people such as former or current employees or business associates intend to inflict harm on the company. It is advantageous to be able to identify a person’s ill intentions before it takes place. Thus this project focuses on analyzing the dynamics and networks of a company through its email exchanges. With the usage of R programming and Gephi, anomalies or unusual behaviour are identified and sought out. These anomalies may lead to uncovering an insider threat.