November rundown: CrowdStrike's insider threat

As a business leader, you’d like to believe that your staff are entirely trustworthy. Effective enterprises run on workforce confidence – but in some cases, that trust can be misplaced.

In November, CrowdStrike admitted one of its own employees had provided screenshots of internal systems to hackers in exchange for a sizable payout. Industry experts have told ITPro the incident should act as a wake up call to the all-too-serious risk of insider threats.

Earlier in the month, websites all over the world went offline after a major outage at the content delivery network service provider Cloudflare. What was the cause of the incident: had Cloudflare fallen victim to the kind of DDoS attack it’s famous for preventing?

In this episode, Jane and Rory welcome back Ross Kelly, ITPro’s news and analysis editor, to explore some of November’s biggest stories.

Footnotes

• If you're not taking insider threats seriously, then the CrowdStrike incident should be a big wake up call
• Nearly 700,000 customers impacted after insider attack at US fintech firm
• AI means cyber teams are rethinking their approach to insider threats
• ‘Insiders don’t need to break in’: A developer crippled company networks with malicious code and a ‘kill switch’ after being sacked – and experts warn it shows the huge danger of insider threats
• Everything you need to know about Cloudflare
• The Cloudflare outage explained: What happened, who was impacted, and what was the root cause?
• Cloudflare says AI companies have been “scraping content without limits” – now it’s letting website owners block crawlers and force them to pay
• Security experts issue warning over the rise of 'gray bot' AI web scrapers
• Cloudflare is fighting back against AI web scrapers
• Nearly half of all digital initiatives still fail – here’s how you can learn from the ‘digital vanguard’ and deliver success

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