The Five Types of Insider Threat

An 11-page field guide to the five types of insider threat, including the newest category: agentic insiders, where AI agents act with delegated access. For each type: real examples, the behavioral signals that surface it early, sourced data, and what actually stops it.

What's inside

• ▸A page per type: what it looks like, early indicators, and what stops it
• ▸Agentic insiders: AI agents acting with your employees' permissions
• ▸A response matrix: the first question and proportionate action for each type
• ▸Five steps and six questions to pressure-test your insider risk program
• ▸Sourced data from Verizon DBIR 2024 and 2025 and IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2024