Potential Characteristics of Insider Threats and Mediator of Precipitating Event that Impact Organizational Performances

Abstract

Insider threats are a genuine, significant problem, and a cause for great concern for organizations today.  Insider threats can take many different forms, including selling and sharing secret information, retaliation, bribery, corporate strategic plans, consumers, suppliers, experts, and other useful information for financial gain.

Understanding characteristics of internal threats that affect organizational performance is the goal of this paper. Therefore, this paper aims to present a framework that will explain the relationship between the impact on organizational performance as a dependent variable and the psychological state and personality traits as potential insider threat characteristics as independent variables. The triggering event will act as a mediator in this interaction. The study's sample was assessed to from the manufacturing industry.

The study's findings might therefore serve as a starting point for reflection, modeling prior attacks, and the search for helpful trends in addition to providing a general grasp of the danger. Therefore, the research is anticipated to provide information and data assistance to the organization in order to reduce the possibility of the insider threat and improve performance for staff members, students, and researchers as well as within Malaysian organizations.