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While the "insider threat" caused these losses, it's insider risk—potential financial damage through lost revenue, or damage to brand equity, reputation, intellectual property, or even human life—that organizations manage through access control. Eric Cole, the author of more than a dozen books on IT security and a former employee of the CIA, points out that "the key pivot point for the insider is access. That is . . . what enables them to be as effective as possible in accomplishing their mission."

Clearly, access control is needed. Access control is often discussed as part of identity and access management (IAM), a market segment that has grown substantially during the past few years as organizations seek to secure their data from insider threat and meet compliance requirements. The Symark PowerSeries line of identity and access management solutions addresses this problem through access control, each product addressing different vulnerabilities insider the perimeter.