It is of critical importance for an entity to examine how an inside threat could harm an organization, both in the short term and extending into the future. Does your entity have strong security preventative measures to protect company proprietary, confidential and sensitive data? If company data was exposed or stolen, it can significantly disrupt, harm the organization's operations or close the business. Insider threats by owners, executives and senior management have threatened the viability of a business before and post audits and regulatory inspections have violated company policy due to greed or power. This group of people t abused their authority. Internet and global digital commerce is widely adopted, insider threats will continue. In this course, we will identify the different types of insider threats to an organization.