The technology sector endures cyber attacks and insider abuse on a daily basis. A high level of competition, geographically distributed partners, outsourced services, BYOD polices and freelance employees – all of this puts an enormous amount of confidential data at risk.

For technology companies, internal risks that are associated with employee activities include:

• Intellectual property theft
• Interruption of IT processes
• Leakage of client data
• Network and system disruption
• Contractual and regulatory non-compliance

So in order to perform real-time threat detection and prevent data breaches, a company needs to monitor the following:

• Confidential information in text, audio, video, and graphics formats
• Personally identifiable information (PII)
• R&D data
• Customer database
• Patents and tender documentation
• Privacy data
• Login credentials
• Source code
• Network design
• Human behavior