Submitting Campus
Prescott
Department
Global Security & Intelligence Studies
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
5-14-2026
Abstract/Description
Organizations today face a growing and evolving threat that often originates not from an outside hacker or criminal organization, but from within their own workforce, vendor networks, and trusted partnerships. Insider threats continue to represent one of the most difficult risks to identify, prevent, and mitigate because insiders already possess something external adversaries spend enormous resources trying to obtain: trust, access, and legitimacy.
For decades, many organizations relied heavily on pre-employment criminal history checks and reference verification as their primary safeguard against insider misconduct. While these tools remain important foundational elements of any hiring and risk management program, they are no longer sufficient by themselves. Modern insider threats are far more complex, sophisticated, and dynamic than a simple criminal background screening can detect.
Publication Title
EP Wired
Publisher
EP Wired
Scholarly Commons Citation
Saquella, A. (2026). Building a Comprehensive Insider Threat Defense Program. EP Wired Retrieved from https://commons.erau.edu/publication/2470
Additional Information
Please access the version-of-record published by EP Wired here.