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Insider threat protection

The threat already
has a badge.

Trusted access is still access. PostAuth keeps encryption and policy attached to the file, so what an insider takes stays unreadable — and can be revoked after it has already left.

WHO THIS COVERS:employees
FILE-LEVEL PROTECTION 03 / 03
EMPLOYEE BADGETrusted employee
✓ Access verified
03 / OPEN ATTEMPT BLOCKEDAccess denied. File stays encrypted.
The file can leave. Control stays with you.
60%
CAUSE OF BREACH

of data breaches trace back to an insider — negligent or deliberate.

$180K
COST OF CONTAINMENT

average spend to contain a single insider incident.

51%
AT THE EXIT

of exiting employees take sensitive company data with them.

THE GAP / WHY THE STACK MISSES IT

Every control worked.
The data still walked out.

Trusted people need access to do their jobs. The gap opens when permission to access a file becomes permanent permission to use it.

  1. 01VISIBILITY

    No real-time view of file access

    Legacy tooling cannot track who opened what, when — so suspicious activity surfaces long after the fact.

  2. 02ACCESS

    Permissions instead of usage policy

    Broad role-based access grants the folder and stops there. Nothing governs what happens to the file next.

  3. 03PRIVILEGE

    Privilege creep compounds quietly

    Rights accrue with every project and rarely get revoked, widening the surface one grant at a time.

  4. 04DEVICE

    BYOD and remote gaps

    Personal laptops and untrusted networks sit outside device-based controls but inside the data.

  5. 05CRYPTO

    Encryption that stops at the disk

    At-rest and in-transit encryption dissolves on authentication. Inside the network, the file is plaintext.

  6. 06OFFBOARDING

    Access that outlives employment

    Disabled accounts leave synced, downloaded and shared copies fully readable.

PROTECTION IN MOTION

Four insider actions, replayed
with the data layer switched on

Pick what the insider does. Then toggle the data layer. The action always succeeds — only the outcome changes.

SELECT AN ACTION
DATA LAYER
WHAT LEAVES THE BUILDING

CONTROLS IN PLAY
ILLUSTRATIVE ENFORCEMENT FLOW · NO LIVE DATA

HOW PADS CLOSES IT

A login isn’t
the final decision.

Put a policy check between trusted access and readable data. Protection follows the file, and every request has to meet your rules.

INSIDE A PROTECTED FILE REQUESTILLUSTRATIVE FLOW
01 / THE FILE
FP / PROTECTED
Engineering design.dwg Encrypted by default

The copy moves.
The policy moves with it.

02 / YOUR POLICY
PostAuthFILE-LEVEL ACCESS CHECK
  • 01Identity & group
  • 02Device identity
  • 03Network & location

Decryption requires an authorized request.

03 / THE DECISION
POLICY MET

Work continues.

Open in a familiar application.

POLICY NOT MET

Data stays locked.

Possession doesn’t grant access.

01

Protect the data.

Encryption stays attached to the file across storage, devices, and collaborators.

Explore the controls
  • Every file encrypted by default

    FIPS 140-2 compliant AES-256 applied at creation, carried wherever the file travels.

  • Stolen logins are not enough

    Decryption keys stay in a Hardware Security Module and are issued per authorised request.

  • Device-independent protection

    Protection is a property of the file, so an unmanaged laptop changes nothing about it.

02

Evaluate the request.

A valid login starts the conversation. Context and policy determine file access.

Explore the controls
  • Context decides, not role alone

    Enforce on AD group, IP allow-list, geo-location and device identity at the point of access.

  • Explicit authorisation, always

    Files stay encrypted until PostAuth approves the request — which retires privilege creep.

  • SAML 2.0 deprovisioning

    Removing a user in your IdP removes their ability to open every encrypted file.

03

Keep the final say.

Revoke access as relationships change and bring file activity into your security workflow.

Explore the controls
  • Revocation at the last day

    Access ends when employment ends, including on copies already outside the estate.

  • Share without surrendering

    Send encrypted files externally and revoke access dynamically at any point afterwards.

  • Evidence your SOC can use

    Real-time file-access logs stream into existing tooling for anomaly detection and automated response.

See how it fits your environment

THE EMPLOYEE LIFECYCLE

People move on.
Your control doesn’t.

From the first day to the final handover, keep file access aligned with the relationship.

  1. 01
    JOIN

    Access provisioned

    Policy attaches to files, not to a folder grant that nobody will revisit.

  2. 02
    WORK

    Friction-free by design

    People open protected files in the apps they already use, on any approved device.

  3. 03
    MOVE

    Roles change, policy follows

    Context re-evaluates on every request, so a team change is enforced at the file.

  4. 04
    LEAVE

    Revoked, not just disabled

    IdP removal cuts key authorisation instantly — synced and shared copies included.

Offboarding should reach the files.
Including the copies that have already left.

Walk through your workflow
FAQ

Insider threat,
answered plainly.

Still specific to your estate? A 30-minute working session covers it faster than a doc.

It removes the assumption that access equals readability. Files stay encrypted with AES-256 and require an authorised request — evaluated against identity, device, network and policy — before decryption. A copied or exported file without that authorisation is ciphertext.

Yes. Every open, deny and share generates an audit event streamed to your SIEM, giving behavioural analytics and investigation a file-level record rather than a login-level one.

Deprovisioning in your SAML 2.0 identity provider revokes key authorisation immediately. Files they downloaded, synced or shared stop opening — there is no residual window to manage.

No. Network position grants nothing. Decryption keys live in an HSM and are released only for requests that satisfy policy, so lateral movement does not produce readable data.

Disk and transport encryption protect data at rest and in motion, then hand over plaintext once a session is authenticated. File-level protection persists through the authenticated session and travels with the file across systems and organisations.

Protected files open in their native applications with normal performance. Encryption and policy evaluation happen in the background; for the person doing the work, the file behaves like any other file.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Don't wait for the
exit interview.

Map one sensitive file's journey — creation, sharing, offboarding — and see exactly where persistent encryption changes the outcome.