The Trust Trap: Why Employees Turn Malicious and How Causal AI Predicts the Breaking Point

CISO Insights: Voices in Cybersecurity

Insider threats are not just technical breaches but fundamentally human failures, where employees exploit their legitimate access due to a complex mix of financial stress, revenge, and unmet expectations. This episode explores how personality traits like narcissism and organizational shortcomings create a "Trust Trap," allowing behavioral precursors to escalate unnoticed into full-blown attacks. We examine the shift toward proactive defense, where integrating User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) and Probabilistic Graphical Networks (PGNs) with HR data provides the necessary causal, human-centric monitoring required for mitigation.

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