The Psychology of Insider Threat Prevention Cyber Security Part 4: Mastering the Components & Systems of Insider Threat Prevention Cyber Security (ITP CS)

Systems Management Institute Press - 8/6/2020

Throughout this series, I discussed definitive insights and themes in The Psychology of Insider Threat Prevention Cyber Security that can prepare the ITP CS Specialist to become more aware and cautious about the genius of the ordinary malicious insider. Malicious insiders are not often stupid. They are most often very smart people who do stupid things. The dangerous challenge occurs when brilliant people launch malicious insider attacks brilliantly. As we know by now, Insider Attacks can be fatal to an organization. We can never take cyber safety for granted.

ITP Cyber Security is all about a kind of interaction that is highly charged by a range of psychological elements such as feelings, models of communications, signs, messages, special purpose languages, the ITP 3Cs of Conflict, Cooperation, Competition, the behavior of social groups, Ideal-Seeking Systems Behavior, mastery of logical propositions, constraints of time, the problem of distortion and faulty observation, and the perfection of perception and identity.

These are all rich topics with a long history of development and clarification even before they were applied to Cyber Security. The challenge of working with people in your enterprise who may or may not be malicious insiders is one of the great challenges faced today by employees, managers, executives and the customers we all serve. Solutions, real solutions, the kind of solutions that prevent malicious insider cyber-attacks are difficult to discover, but you can discover them if you properly prepare yourself for a new kind of psychological warfare.