10341 Report - Insider Threats: Strategies for Prevention, Mitigation, and Response

This article summarizes the objectives and structure of a seminar with the same title, held from August 22nd to 26th, 2010, at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. The seminar brought together researchers and policy-makers from quite diverse communities, to make progress towards an integrated framework for understanding insider threats and their interaction with organizations and policies. During the seminar, social and organizational factors relevant to insider threats, were discussed, as well as urgent questions in four areas: synthesizing social science and technical research, metrics and assurance, language formulations and ontology, and the threats facing intangible systems. This report gives an overview of the discussions and presentations during the week, as well as the outcome of these discussions.