Insider threat evokes a variety of menacing images for internal auditors and others responsible for protecting organizations from malicious or irresponsible acts. With the implementation of new technologies and the expanding dependence on data collection in the public and private sectors, this vulnerability has increasingly become an information security and privacy issue. Employees are now able to access vast amounts of highly sensitive financial, medical, education or credit information for unauthorized, and potentially malicious, reasons. Ongoing Surveillance Data surveillance is a strategy that allows organizations to safeguard the confidential data critical to their success, without restricting access to information that would impede the key business processes for which it was collected.