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October 15, 2015

Researchers partnered with a financial institution to find where insider threats can strike.

Researchers funded by the National Science Foundation's Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) initiative partnered with a financial institution, which gave them a rare resource: anonymized access records for every interaction with their computer networks by several thousand internal users. The researchers say the institution is an ideal setting for this kind of research.

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