Nik Earnest

Nik Earnest is a Product Marketing Manager for CyberRes, a Micro Focus line of business currently guiding marketing for their AI and Threat Hunting products. He constantly works to understand customer needs to improve products and help companies defend against some of the most difficult threats both inside and out of an organization. Along with his work in cyber, Nik has a background in web development and web analytics.

The Insider Threat Problem: Your biggest threat may already be inside!

With insider threats it’s not a matter of if, but rather a question of when your organization will be hit. Just last week HackerOne, a security company, dealt with a rogue employee stealing data reported through the company’s bug bounty system. According to the article, the insider threat actor was turning around and using the privileged data to claim bounties directly from the affected companies, making a tidy profit.…

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