The Dark Triad and Insider Threats in Cyber Security

Tracing the relationship between pathological personality traits and insider cyber sabotage is critical to addressing cyber threats in real-time. Understanding the individual, social, and organizational influences on insider threats is important to the development of security-related policies and controls. Cyber sabotage as part of a broader insider threat issue is addressed in the context of an organizational security risk management plan. Such plans should include security controls intended to mitigate the risk of a human threat from the inside. In the US, in some cases in which classified material is involved, formal insider threat cyber security programs are mandated by Presidential Executive Order. The security controls prescribed by insider threat programs often include automated employee monitoring systems for detection, education and training programs for awareness.