Proactively identifying insider risk:
Who and what are your threats?

Nearly every week, news of cyber attacks dominate the headlines. But many executives don't fully appreciate that there's another risk, equally if not more pernicious - that often goes overlooked: insider attacks.

Disgruntled employees and malicious internal actors involved in fraudulent activities, intellectual property theft and data leaks can endanger not only a company's financial and reputational health, but the physical safety of their staff.

Join us on Tuesday 10 May for a panel discussion with leading industry practitioners, lawyers, and academics on the current insider risk landscape. Learn how your organisation can identify and manage insider risk and the many associated challenges.

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Ellen Temperton is a partner at Lewis Silkin who has over 20 years’ experience in dealing with all aspects of employment law and has clients in all sectors. She is a noted employment law specialist with particular expertise in workplace data protection and privacy issues and is an experienced employment litigator who has handled complex and high value cases in the high court and arbitration for various clients. She has considerable experience of taking steps to protect the business when an employee leaves by applications for injunctions to enforce restrictive covenants or garden leave.

Ms Temperton is named as a 'Leading individual' by Chambers UK, Chambers Global, Legal 500 and the International Who’s Who of Management, Labour and Employment Lawyers.

Mick Salisbury is a Financial Crime and Investigation Consultant with 25 years’ experience in building, leading and developing Anti-Fraud and Investigation functions in the financial services industry.

Since leaving a major financial services firm in 2015, where he was Head of Investigation Advisory, Mr. Salisbury has created Investigation Consulting Limited and is increasingly engaged on cyber enabled fraud alongside securities and regulatory matters.

Mr. Salisbury will be sharing his thoughts on how to build an Insider Threat programme and how your firm can get ahead of the curve before things go wrong.

Dr. Eric Shaw is a Clinical Psychologist and former intelligence officer who has spent the last 20 years applying behavioural science methods to forensic and security challenges. He supports investigations for a broad array of clients, helping Stroz Friedberg discover and manage the identity of insiders and outsiders making anonymous threats. He has also helped the company conduct vulnerability analyses related to threats from insiders and terrorists.

Dr. Shaw invented the SCOUT software – a proprietary technology designed to help proactively identify potential insider threats - based on decades of assessment work in the intelligence community and 15 years of investigations within the financial sector as Stroz Friedberg's lead behavioural consultant. He continues to serve as a consultant for a federal counter-intelligence department, as well as the Fairfax County Police Department. In addition to his investigative work, he also supervises the use of SCOUT at Stroz Friedberg clients, along with his team of clinicians, and responds to inquiries regarding the assessment and management of at-risk employees.

He has served as an Adjunct Professor at George Washington University's Elliot School of International Affairs where he has taught a course for Political Psychology graduate students on assessment and research methods. He is a Founding Member and has served on the Board and Faculty of the Institute for Contemporary Psychology and Psychoanalysis, a training organisation for therapists in Washington, DC. He also has served as a behavioural consultant to the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute's Insider Threat team. His publications have appeared in multiple peer-reviewed journals.

Monica Whitty is a cyberpsychologist and Chair in Contemporary Media at the Department of Media and Communication for the University of Leicester.She began her academic career in Australia, where she worked in the School of Psychology at Macquarie University (1995-1996), and in the School of Applied, Social and Human Sciences, at the University of Western Sydney (1998-2003). Moving to the UK, she was appointed as a lecturer in the School of Psychology at Queen’s University Belfast, then as Reader in Psychology at Nottingham Trent University.

Dr. Whitty’s recent research, along with an esteemed group of colleagues from other leading academic institutions, has focused on Corporate Insider Threat Detection. The purpose of this research programme is to investigate the potential for near real-time detection of insider threat activities within a large enterprise environment.  As insider threat activities are not confined solely to cyber-based threats, the research undertaken on Insider explores the potential for harnessing a variety of threat indicators enabling human analysts to make informed decisions efficiently and effectively.

Michael Boag is the head of Stroz Friedberg’s international region. Mr. Boag oversees the firm’s offices in London, Zurich, Hong Kong and Dubai, and serves on the firm’s senior leadership committee.

Mr. Boag manages complex investigative matters and consulting projects for a wide range of global corporations, financial institutions and law firms. His particular expertise is in regulatory compliance investigations where he has extensive experience in leading multifaceted global investigations involving fraud, hacking and corruption issues.

Prior to joining Stroz Friedberg, Mr. Boag was the head of Billiter Partners’ London office, where he was responsible for managing the firm’s investigations and due diligence practice, globally. Previously, he worked for an aerospace and defence consultancy and a London based risk management group, where he was a researcher for French speaking jurisdictions and covered a range of developed and African emerging markets. From 2003 to 2004, he was based in Northern Iraq where he worked as a researcher and lecturer.