Security firm Tessian Ltd. is launching a new tool to help companies assess the risk posed to their computer systems and data from current and former employees.

Tessian’s Human Layer Security Intelligence platform also helps reduce the risk of accidental data loss, data exfiltration and advanced impersonation phishing attacks, the company said. Further, it added, it enables security teams to more easily investigate any incidents and mitigate them, while improving employee’s security behavior.

The risk of malicious employees stealing or otherwise misusing corporate data is very real. According to a recent study commissioned by Tessian, more than a third of former employees take some kind of data with them when they leave a company. And there have been several notable incidents in recent times of employees reportedly stealing data to sell to rival companies.

Tessian HLS Intelligence helps security teams curate threat trends in order to identify high-risk threats and employees and make informed event prioritization decisions, the company said. They can also benchmark their risk levels against industry peers.

The enhanced visibility helps security teams better predict an employee exit, allowing them to block that person from sending confidential company data to a personal email account. The software can also be configured to warn employees of company security policies should such an incident occur.

“Threat intelligence has traditionally been associated with external malicious actors — an “outside-in” perspective,” said Ed Bishop, co-founder and chief technology officer at Tessian. “However, people within the organization pose just as much of a risk to data and systems, either by acting maliciously or as a result of simple human error. To prevent today’s most important email security threats, security solutions must understand human behavior.”

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