CISA preparing guide on insider threat amid convergence of cyber and physical systems

Artificial Intelligence and machine learning can be valuable tools in monitoring employee user data to prevent organizational damage from insider threat, but must be combined with human investigators to assess factors like intent, according to federal officials speaking in advance of an upcoming Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency guide on the topic.

“We view this not as a typical IT security function but a behavioral monitoring tool,” said Robert Rohrer, deputy director of the National Insider Threat Task Force at...