Insider Risk Assessment
Trust, access, and governance are everyday compromises every organisation makes - and the balance drifts over time. Pentiq's Insider Risk Assessment helps you see whether the controls behind that balance still hold: privileged-account governance, exfiltration pathways, and the joiner/mover/leaver process that quietly grants more access than anyone tracks. The aim isn't to assume the worst of your people; it's to give you visibility into where access, monitoring, and process aren't keeping pace with how your business actually works.
What we test
What access do your trusted users actually have - and what could go wrong with it?
Privileged-account management (admins, service accounts, break-glass), UEBA and DLP coverage, data-exfiltration pathways across endpoints, cloud storage, and email forwarding rules, and the cultural and process layer - joiner/mover/leaver, ethics-hotline use, training effectiveness.
Why it matters
The pressure this service answers.
Most insider-risk programmes lean on tooling alone - UEBA, DLP, alerts. The gap is process: what happens when someone leaves a project, changes role, returns from a long absence, or quits. Pentiq tests the joins between tooling and governance, so the controls work the way you think they do without putting your people under unnecessary scrutiny.
Testing activities
Manual, reproducible, peer-reviewed.
Every engagement is scoped through a formal Rules of Engagement, delivered by an in-house Pentiq consultant, peer-reviewed by a senior tester, and risk-rated using CVSS 4.0 where applicable.
- Privileged-account review (admins, service accounts, break-glass)
- Behaviour-analytics and UEBA coverage assessment
- Data-exfiltration pathway testing (USB, cloud drives, email forwarding)
- Log-collection and alert-triage effectiveness checks
- Cultural and process review (joiner/mover/leaver, ethics hotline)
- Mitigation recommendations (just-in-time admin, session recording, DLP triggers)
Methodologies & frameworks
The standards behind every report.
Every report aligns to the methodologies and frameworks your assessors, customers, and insurers already recognise, so findings are defensible, reproducible, and easy to validate.
- CREST Simulated-Attack and Security-Audit methodologies
- CERT Insider-Threat Programme Best Practice Guide
- NIST SP 800-53 PS, AC, and AU families
- ISO 27002 (2022) HR-security controls
Outcomes
What you walk away with.
- Reveals high-risk insider pathways and privilege-escalation vectors
- Improves monitoring visibility and reduces mean-time-to-detect
- Practical, cost-effective mitigations that don't require new tooling
- Strengthens organisational culture and employee trust programmes
Often paired with
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Talk to Pentiq about insider risk.
Most enquiries get a same working day response from a Pentiq consultant. We'll scope honestly and tell you when an alternative service is the right answer.