This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine

Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 26, 2026

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The 2026 CISO Report from Cybersecurity Ventures in partnership with Sophos reports that in Jan. 2026, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a new resource on “Assembling a Multi-Disciplinary Insider Threat Management Team.” The guidance is intended to assist critical infrastructure stakeholders, which includes private sector entities across various sectors, with implementing an insider threat mitigation program that combines physical security, cybersecurity, personnel awareness, and community partnerships.

Although framed for critical infrastructure, CISA’s guidance is relevant to a broader range of organizations, including those outside of critical infrastructure sectors — a point echoed by Inside Privacy, a resource for updates on developments in data privacy and cybersecurity, edited by Covington. In 2025, organizations allocated an average of 19 percent of IT security budgets to insider risk management, up from 8.2 percent in 2023, according to Help Net Security. Many organizations view agentic AI as important for early insider risk detection, but only a small share classify AI agents as equivalent to human insiders.

When it comes to detecting and protecting against insider risk, cybersecurity teams need to go above and beyond. Above Security has changed the game with an AI-native insider threat platform for proactive risk management. Specialized AI agents guide employees away from risk while building behavioral timelines of people and their agentic AI counterparts – inferring intent from signals traditional tools miss and delivering a full evidentiary timeline the moment activity becomes an incident.

Cybercrime Magazine caught up with Above’s co-founders Aviv Nahum, CEO, and Amir Boldo, CPTO, to get their take on the insider threat and what organizations can do to protect themselves from malicious employees, contractors, and others who may be lurking in their networks and systems.

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