Ian Clark is the Insider Risk Lead at Uber, where he focuses on insider threat and the human factors that drive employee security behaviour. He has spent the past five years building and operating insider risk programs that look beyond purely malicious activity to address the more common reality of negligent, unaware, or policy-violating employees.
Ian’s work emphasizes a “shift-left” approach to insider risk: identifying risky behaviour earlier, helping employees return to compliance, and preserving trusted talent where appropriate, while freeing his investigative teams to focus on higher-risk actors and serious threats. His experience includes building proactive leaver programs, AI as an Insider Threat, overemployment, data exfiltration and high-stakes matters involving sophisticated threat actors, including DPRK-linked activity.
Ian holds a Master’s degree in Cybersecurity from the University of California, Berkeley, where he focused on cyber warfare and AI governance. At the ASIAL Conference, he will discuss why modern insider threat programs must combine behavioural insight, employee rehabilitation, and targeted threat hunting to manage risk effectively.