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Blaring headlines that decry insider attacks against their employers are nothing new. In fact, some of the biggest and most damaging data breaches in recent memory were ultimately linked back to rogue employees of large firms. You could be forgiven for thinking that malicious insiders were a threat felt mostly by enterprises and large enterprises. After all, the Threatpost list of Infamous Insiders features no shortage of Fortune 500 firms. But if you assumed that rogue and malicious insiders were an enterprise problem only, you’d be dead wrong. Small businesses, too, are frequent victims of insider attacks and other forms of data theft, and are just as likely to be attacked as large, well-known firms. This Spotlight offers some guidelines that businesses can use to help avoid being a victim.

If Firewalls, antivirus software and intrusion detection tools keep out stealthy attackers, how does a company square off against rogue insiders? That’s a pressing question and one that’s garnering more attention as the number of high profile insider attacks mounts, and as government and private sector regulators take steps to clamp down on malicious insiders. To help you understand the insider threat better, Threatpost has put together this Spotlight on insider threat attacks that can help you begin to tailor your protections and policies to stop malicious insiders

If you have a smart phone, the chances are that you just love the convenience of the thing. When you’re lost, your phone – by now GPS enabled - can bring up Google Maps or some other program and tell you where you are and how to get where you’re going. In a strange city? Applications like Yelp will tell you about cool restaurants and stores nearby while Facebook and Twitter let you keep in touch with your followers.

Sometimes a big news story looks even bigger in retrospect than it does when it’s breaking. We think that’s the case with the Stuxnet worm, a sophisticated piece of malicious code that crawled its way onto the networks of power plant operators and critical infrastructure providers from India to Iran and Germany in 2010. In a series of articles, Threatpost dug deep into the functioning and origins of Stuxnet, as well as the conditions within the critical infrastructure sector that made it so effective.

In a recent series of articles, Threatpost has examined some of the challenges facing the IT sector and companies, as attackers focus their attentions on buggy, vulnerable application code on PCs, mobile devices and the Web.