Are you a psychopath? Your boss wants to know

Marketwatch reports:

“For the first time, we’re seeing businesses, especially on the commercial side, put line-items on their cybersecurity budget for insider threats,” says Chris Kauffman, founder and CEO of Personam Inc., a McLean, Va.-based insider threat prevention company whose clients include financial services firms, law firms, and health-care companies. “They’re very well aware of the insider threat and they’re very worried about it.”

Personam develops behavior profiles for employees. Using the activity of employees in similar job functions as a baseline, algorithms hunt for people who might be spending unwarranted time in a database, working odd hours without authorization or downloading old data.

“Criminal insiders, they won’t completely shift over to illegal activity. They’ll continue doing their jobs,” Kauffman says. “The technology was built to detect those subtle shifts in their behaviors, or the differences between them and people they work closely with.”

An article for all HR staff.