Insiders are biggest security problem for companies today: Cyber security expert

Saryu Nayyar is the CEO of Gurucul, a company that specialises in user and entity behavior analytics, identity analytics, fraud analytics and cloud security analytics. Nayyar is an internationally recognised cyber security expert, author, speaker and member of the Forbes Technology Council. She has more than 15 years of experience in the information security, identity and access management, IT risk and compliance, and security risk management sectors. She has held leadership roles in security products and services strategy at Oracle, Simeio, Sun Microsystems, Vaau (acquired by Sun) and Disney. Nayyar also spent several years in senior positions at the technology security and risk management practice of Ernst and Young. She is passionate about building disruptive technologies and has several patents pending for behavior analytics, anomaly detection and dynamic risk scoring inventions. She talks to THE WEEK about how critical insider security threats are and also about the importance of fraud analytics in controlling them.