DTEX Named a Leader in the First GigaOm Radar for Insider Risk Management

The field of Insider Risk Management (IRM) continues to gain momentum as more organizations recognize the critical need to address threats that are notoriously difficult to detect and mitigate. With awareness growing, insider risk has emerged as an essential, yet often misunderstood, component of the broader security landscape. A key validation of the importance is the recent GigaOm Radar for Insider Risk Management, a trusted third-party analysis that highlights the evolving market and its solutions.

The GigaOm Radar report is designed to help businesses evaluate and compare technology solutions within a specific area and provides an easy-to-read summary of the competitive landscape, highlighting key criteria to consider when making buying decisions. This first annual IRM Radar looks at key criteria and includes evaluation metrics for 15 insider risk vendors to help organizations make informed technology investments in an increasingly complex security landscape.

As the IRM market has developed, more vendors and technology buyers understand that a holistic strategy (i.e. platform approach) is critical to being most effective at identifying and stopping not just data leaks but the low and slow approach that malicious insiders often take, as they typically know and avoid the security controls in place. The report rightly points out that IRM programs should be a high priority for organizations serious about combating threats and protecting not only their data but their brand and people too. Paul Stringfellow also writes that a successful program should not rely on technology alone. As we have been saying for years, success greatly depends on a culture of trust and accountability that makes insiders knowingly responsible for their actions. 

Especially for those getting up to speed on IRM, the report provides valuable insights. It digs into the key features of the insider risk management space, including the critical nature of what and how data is collected, baselining and understanding user behavior, and having the tools to identify when valuable data is being impacted, among other things. The report highlights DTEX’s overall strength across categories and exceptional behavior analytics capabilities. 

The report also looks at the ability to use AI for analysis and investigation, specifically calling out LLMs to help identify high priority risk actions and to summarize the risk in straight forward language to assist analysts. The DTEX Ai3 Risk Assistant draws on the behavioral metadata and risk modeling from the InTERCEPT^TM platform to provide guided investigations that empower analysts to ask pointed questions like where sensitive data is going, who is accessing it, and most importantly, why. This is key because the ‘why’ helps determine an appropriate response. 

It is worth nothing that an area that has not necessarily been given the focus it deserves is the part that User Activity monitoring (UAM) plays. Some organizations are already deeply aware of this, including federal agencies, but generally more education is needed to highlight the important part that UAM plays, as one integral piece of a platform approach, in detecting and building a case for insider threats.

For additional insights, read the full 2024 GigaOm Radar Report for IRM.

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