The goal of an insider threat program is to deter, detect, and mitigate actions by insiders who represent a threat to an organizations resources, including personnel, facilities, information, equipment, networks, and systems. The program aims to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive and classified material, eliminate workplace violence, and identify employees on the critical path. The key steps to mitigate insider threat are to define, detect and identify, assess, and manage. Threat detection and identification is the process by which persons who might present an insider threat risk due to their observable, concerning behaviors come to the attention of an organization or insider threat team. Threat assessments are based on behaviors, which are variable in nature. A threat assessments goal is to prevent an insider incident, whether intentional or unintentional. Proactively managing insider threats can stop the trajectory or change the course of events from a harmful outcome to an effective mitigation. Insider threat programs are multidisciplinary teams comprising security, human resources, cybersecurity, legal, counterintelligence, mental health professionals, and others who work together to proactively identify insiders who may pose a threat to the organization or its resources.