ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the roles and approaches of best practices taken by managers and information technology specialists to mitigate the organizational risk which is under their span of control, and organizational influence. It provides a narrative response to directly answer how managers and information technology specialists mitigate risk to insider threat to organization, thereby enhancing organizational resilience. The chapter believes that the distinctions are worth understanding from multiple vantage points within a given business or organization. The following mental models are beneficial in assessing mitigation of risk and enhancing organizational resilience. Increasingly, it is about challenging the status quo and ensuring that conducting enterprise-wide risk assessments are properly assessed and the risks are mitigated with high integrity. Incorporating cybersecurity into core competencies and an ongoing competency being delivered through virtual means, as well as in-person means, can provide some risk reduction.
