Closing the Gap in Cybersecurity: How to Address Human Insider Risk
NetClean's March 18th webinar focused on a critical, but often overlooked challenge facing federal, state, and local government agencies: human insider risk.
As criminal networks and foreign intelligence services grow more sophisticated, they increasingly exploit human vulnerabilities to gain access to sensitive systems. Certain forms of high-risk digital behavior–including exposure to compromising content such as child sexual abuse material (CSAM)–can create serious security and coercion risks, increasing susceptibility to blackmail, extortion, and foreign influence.
In this webinar, NetClean and invited guest panelists shared their perspectives on human insider risk, drawing on specialized threat intelligence to help agencies understand how high-risk digital behaviors can translate into real-world security and coercion threats.
This webinar covered:
- Insider risk as a national security issue in an era of hybrid conflict and foreign influence
- How geopolitical pressure is shifting adversary focus from technical exploits to human access
- Human vulnerabilities and high-risk digital behavior as exploitable insider-risk signals
- The challenge of managing insider risk in high-trust, high-privilege public sector environments
- Strengthening governance and institutional resilience to protect national capability by implementing NetClean ProActive
By connecting geopolitics, psychology, and governance, this webinar brings modern security risks closer to home and highlights why protecting critical infrastructure and sensitive data now requires addressing the human insider risk.
Speaker Details
Karl Engelbrektsson
Former Chief of the Swedish Army;
Former Military EU & NATO Representative
Representative Dr. Michael Bourke
Clinical & Forensic Psychologist;
Former Chief Psychologist, U.S. Marshals Service
Jens Storberget
Senior Official, Government Offices of Sweden
Anna Borgstrom
CEO, NetClean
Al Irizarry
Chief Partner Officer, NetClean
Tobias Englund
U.S. Sales Director, NetClean
Event Topic
Big Data, Cybersecurity, Risk Management/RegulatoryRelevant Audiences
All State and Local Government, All Federal GovernmentOther Agency
Other Federal Agencies
Event Type
On-Demand
Event Subtype
Webinar / Webcast
Duration
1h 0min
Registration Cost
Complimentary