Time is Money: Why Organizations are Embracing Insider Risk Services

Insider threats increasingly thrive on trust, privileged access, and invisibility. Most enterprises now recognize that detection is essential. The harder question is different: when something looks wrong, how long does it take your team to reach a conclusion they trust enough to act on?

Research by the Ponemon Institute and DTEX shows how much that answer matters. Insider incidents contained in under 31 days cost around $10.6M a year. When they run beyond 91 days, the cost rises to $18.7M. That range shows a simple truth. Containment time is a primary cost multiplier, and investigation speed is a board-level priority.

That is why more security leaders are moving the conversation from “Do we see insider risk?” to “How quickly and confidently can we resolve it?” Modern insider risk platforms provide the visibility and control every organization needs. Insider risk services build on that foundation with investigative insight, platform support, and actionable intelligence to deliver faster, high-confidence outcomes when it matters most.

DTEX i³ Insider Risk Services: turning signals to certainty, faster

The 2025 Ponemon Cost of Insider Risk Report shows how CISOs now judge program effectiveness: fewer incidents, faster resolution, and shorter investigations. The DTEX Platform already delivers the rich behavioral telemetry to support those goals.

Where services add value is in how the platform is operationalized as part of an ongoing insider risk management journey. 

DTEX i³ provides comprehensive insider risk services that amplify the DTEX Platform, helping teams turn signals into decisions, and decisions into measurable security and business outcomes.

Comprising analysts, investigators, and intelligence experts, DTEX i³ works in lockstep with internal security teams, sharing judgement rigor, uplifting and transferring insider risk management skills, tightening case timelines and reinforcing confidence.

DTEX i³ delivers this through four core service pillars:

• Intelligence – Expert-driven insider threat intelligence reports, adversary profiles, RFIs, and quarterly briefings that expose behaviors, TTPs, and trends so you can anticipate risk before it escalates.
• Risk Analysis – Ongoing user risk prioritization, model reviews, and custom use case development to keep scoring, tags, and dashboards tuned to your environment and highest-value scenarios.
• Threats and Investigations – Managed and customer-directed hunts plus MITRE-aligned investigations that surface hidden risks, shrink detection time, and deliver findings you can act on immediately.
• Training and Enablement – Program guidance, role-based training, and analyst development that embed insider risk expertise across security, IT, HR, and legal, building durable in-house capability over time.

For many organizations, this translates into a 2.5 – 3x full time employee multiplier on top of their platform investment.

Importantly, DTEX i³ services are not designed to replace the platform. Rather, they serve to amplify it, shortening the path from “we see something” to “we know what it is and what to do next.”

Where services prove the value

The combination of platform plus services is particularly clear when real cases unfold.

• In a utilities organization, a dedicated DTEX i³ analyst used holistic user risk scoring within the platform to spot a pattern just beyond traditional endpoint tools: large-scale file aggregation, data obfuscation, and unauthorized AI tool use by an employee preparing to leave. Viewed together, and in context of the role, these behaviors suggested preparation for data theft. Working with the customer’s team, DTEX i³ helped escalate, investigate, and remediate before any data left the environment, while strengthening safeguards for similar positions.
• In healthcare, continuous behavioral monitoring revealed a departing employee moving sensitive files, accessing systems after hours, and deleting logs. DTEX i³ co-analyzed the evidence with the customer, aligned the response to existing insider threat protocols, and helped stop the attempted exfiltration while preserving evidence for internal and regulatory use. The organization gained not only containment, but a clearer playbook for future cases.
• In financial services, DTEX i³ layered platform telemetry with business context around a pending merger. By seeing who accessed key directories and isolating interaction patterns that did not match normal work, they quickly narrowed the scope of concern. A potential insider trading situation was addressed early, helping protect market integrity and stakeholder trust while demonstrating the value of combining platform visibility with experienced investigative support.

Across these scenarios, the pattern is consistent: DTEX i³ Services help teams interpret visibility quickly and proportionately with a clear return on investment.

Faster investigations, earlier containment, measurable return

Insider risk services help create that return on investment in significant ways:

• Shorter investigations that reduce total cost exposure
• Fewer escalations that reduce regulatory or breach consequences
• Early threat assumptions that shorten remediation cycles
• Improved initial scope, shaped by first-week intelligence exchange

Those improvements directly compress the containment window and, by extension, the cost gap highlighted in the Ponemon data.

What teams gain that isn’t technical:

• Confidence to act earlier
• An immediate insider risk program maturity uplift
• Protection for AI project work, IP, and sensitive data
• Compliance alignment
• Reinforced workforce trust

At board level, this turns insider risk from an abstract concern into a managed discipline: a platform that provides meaningful visibility, supported by services that help the organization act on that visibility quickly, consistently, and in line with business risk.

Maximizing proactive security

Early insider threat detection and well-informed investigations are critical, and the strongest position is one where concerning insider behaviors are identified and addressed before they escalate.

Insider risk services present a powerful scale opportunity: one that transfers real world investigator experience so that organizations can consistently resolve cases earlier, lower insider risk costs, and prevent breaches before they materialize.

At investigation level, services buy back time through expertise without replacing the team owning the outcome.

At program level, they restore alignment.

At board level, they restore confidence.

DTEX i³ gives organizations a practical way to reach that position faster, while maximizing the value of the platform they already rely on.

The end-state is a place where people, data, and reputation are proactively protected in an environment where time, quite literally, is money.

Contact us to learn how DTEX i³ can support your insider risk management journey.