Robert Emery, Vice President Safety, Health, Environment and Risk Management, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health.
While organizations maintain many layers of controls to prevent outsiders from gaining unauthorized access to cause loss or harm, persons who have been granted legitimate access can become an “insider threat”, and because they are very difficult to detect, cause over $100 billion in losses annually.
Although the typical insider targets assets or data, in some cases their actions can also have significant impact on workplace and environmental health and safety. Because much of an organization’s safety program activities are carried out with the workers in their workplace, this represents a unique opportunity to assist in the possible detection of insider threats.
This presentation will discuss:
- The threats represented by insiders
- Their recognized traits
- How health & safety professionals can enhance their situational awareness and,
- When to report suspicions to the appropriate authorities
