Insider risk has moved from an occasional HR escalation to a constant operational challenge. Employees exfiltrate large volumes of data with ease, and contractors with privileged access rarely appear on HR-managed leaver lists. According to the Ponemon Institute’s 2026 Cost of Insider Risks Global Report, insider incidents now cost the average organization $19.5 million a year. Security teams have visibility from multiple tools, yet answering a simple question: Does this user present a risk? still requires days of manual investigation.
The problem is fragmented evidence. Data loss prevention (DLP) incidents, behavioral anomalies, malware detections, access changes, and application activity appear in different systems without shared context. Analysts pull data from multiple consoles, manually correlate timelines, and rebuild each user’s story from scratch. By the time the review is complete, the risk may already have materialized and the individual concerned may have left the organization. The CISO remains accountable for explaining why (despite warning signs) no timely action prevented the exfiltration.
Netskope Insider Threat AISecOps Agent addresses this gap. Built on the Netskope One platform, the agent assesses the high-risk users an organization chooses to watch and combines behavior, DLP, malware, access, and activity signals into a daily risk assessment. When a user’s combined risk score demands attention, the agent surfaces a prioritized, evidence-backed insight. Fragmented signals become context your team can act on, the same day.
Build the watchlist
How do you decide who should be on these watch lists? Monitoring an entire workforce is neither desirable nor practical, so each organization defines its own groups of high-risk users, and the program watches them.
Analysts can add users directly, select designated identity provider (IDP) groups from providers such as Microsoft Entra ID, or upload a CSV file. Members of selected groups (for example third-party contractors) can enter coverage automatically when they join, and drop off when they leave, so the watchlist stays up-to-date.
In this way, third party contractors and departing users (often blind spots for insider threat tracking) become monitored users. The CISO can show the board who is covered, the criteria used, and the assessment cadence.
Daily assessment
Every 24 hours, the agent calculates a combined risk score for each watched user from behavioral anomalies. This includes the Netskope User Confidence Index (UCI) score, DLP incidents, malware detections, access changes, and application activity. Related signals from a single user contribute to one assessment, instead of multiple alerts. Where the score raises no concern, the agent logs the check and moves on: no insight, no noise. When a user’s combined risk score demands attention, the agent surfaces a prioritized insight with the signals that drove the score and the evidence behind it. Analysts start the day with a ranked list of the users who require attention and the context to make a decision.
Insight to case
The analyst reviews daily insights and decides which ones become cases, an action that always stays with the analyst. Once a case is open, the agent investigates it automatically, sweeping user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) anomalies, UCI score, DLP incidents, malware and malsite alerts, application events, and configured endpoint detection and response (EDR) and IDP context in parallel. It returns a verdict of risk, inconclusive, or legitimate, along with recommended actions.
Every signal is traceable to a specific data point, so analysts can verify the evidence and defend the outcome with HR, legal, and auditors. Cases appear in the same queue as DLP cases, with the same status, assignment, and role-based access control (RBAC) model, and risk can be shared with security information and event management (SIEM) and IT service management (ITSM) workflows.
Save analyst’s time for real risks
Suppose your three insider risk analysts face 600 low-priority alerts in a normal week from DLP, UEBA, endpoint, and access tools. At 10 minutes each to review, document, and close, that is roughly 100 analyst hours, and almost every one of those reviews ends the same way: normal employee activity. In that same week, one departing user trips a few DLP policy violations, a drop in UCI score, unusual after-hours access, and a spike in downloads. Each signal reaches your analyst team separately, each looks minor on its own, and nobody can connect the scattered context manually until several weeks later, sometimes after the user has left. This means you have paid twice: first in the hours your analysts spent on benign alerts, then in the attention your one risky user never received.
Now run the same week with Netskope Insider Threat AISecOps Agent. Those hundreds of alerts consolidate into one daily assessment per watched user. The agent assesses the signals, identifies which users warrant attention, and hands your analysts a short prioritized list. Their time and attention goes to the handful of users whose combined risk score stands out, not to 100 hours of triage. The result is a more efficient insider risk program, lower investigation costs, and analyst effort aligned scrutinizing the highest-risk users. Netskope Insider Threat AISecOps Agent brings accountability to the insider risk program, giving security teams a process that scales and leadership teams a valid proof they can defend.
See for yourself
Connect with the Netskope team for a personalized demonstration and see how Insider Threat AISecOps Agent fits into your insider risk program. Click here to see how Netskope can help your organization.
