The Rise of the Outside Insider Threat

DIEGO LAJE

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They were trusted partners or supplied a reasonable technology alternative. But that was before.

Now, those individuals are a weapon of war. A capability that Russia leverages through voluntary or coercive means.

For example, a company that was operating in both Russia and Ukraine, supplying software to control critical infrastructure to both countries, chose to abandon its business with the invaders, but a gap was left unplugged: Russia-based employees.

“These people are now a weapon in the hands of Russian aggression against Ukraine. That knowledge about these solutions is used to attack Ukraine,” said Mart Noorma, director of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE).