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Published inJun 2023
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Ashish M Kothekar
Ashish M Kothekar
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Ashish M Kothekar

Ashish has a total experience of more than 15 years working for IBM on various different platforms. He is currently working as tech evangelist for IBM Security products. He has been instrumental in developing more than 10 IBM certification exams including IBM products like QRadar, Cloud Pak for Security, IBM SiteProtector, IBM XGS, etc. He has worked with multiple customers on deploying and then upgrading IBM security products. He has contributed regularly by writing blogs and giving talks on security products. He has published many redpapers on the integration of security products with IBM Storage solutions like IBM Spectrum scale. These redpapers are now full-fledged solutions that are being sold. He has also cleared two Mandarin language exams and is HSK2 qualified.
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Insider threats – detection and mitigation challenges

Detecting an insider threat is like finding a needle in a haystack. The data generated about all the employees working for an organization is enormous. This data could be about the activities they perform and activities that are permitted or not permitted. Also, there could be situations where an activity is suspicious for one employee but legitimate for another. Scanning through all this data to find insider threats is no easy task. But the UBA app helps you meet this challenge. The other two significant challenges that crop up while working on insider threats are as follows:

  • Consolidating multiple identities of the same employee

We know that in an organization, we have hundreds of assets that may require a user to create multiple identities. For example, a user, Bob, may have an intranet ID, an ID for accessing Linux servers in a lab, a cloud account for accessing AWS, another cloud account for accessing...

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Ashish M Kothekar

Ashish has a total experience of more than 15 years working for IBM on various different platforms. He is currently working as tech evangelist for IBM Security products. He has been instrumental in developing more than 10 IBM certification exams including IBM products like QRadar, Cloud Pak for Security, IBM SiteProtector, IBM XGS, etc. He has worked with multiple customers on deploying and then upgrading IBM security products. He has contributed regularly by writing blogs and giving talks on security products. He has published many redpapers on the integration of security products with IBM Storage solutions like IBM Spectrum scale. These redpapers are now full-fledged solutions that are being sold. He has also cleared two Mandarin language exams and is HSK2 qualified.
Read more about Ashish M Kothekar