Security Needs To Address Threats From Every Direction
When a network administrator, management, IT data centers, and businesses as a whole think of security, it is the looming threat of hackers bent of committing large scale destruction and extraction of the company vital, sensitive information. The threat of insider theft is given a token thought or piecemeal barrier, as trust and belief in the employee’s good nature is given a pass. Companies and various industries are learning this is no longer the case. The banking industry loses finances from employee manipulation of the system, the health care and hospital environment loses patient information as employees sell the information to outsiders, and businesses lose proprietary patents and information to competitors as an employee is offered enough money to satisfy their lusts and greed. Disgruntled employees with the know how can bring a business to its knees, holding them hostage for no other reason than their feelings were hurt. The entire Die Hard 4 movie detailed it in Hollywood fashion. It may have been a movie, but it does happen, without the special effects and larger budgets.
It is not uncommon to read about an employee who was finally caught after a successful multi-month long period of extracting critical information for financial gain, selling the data to an external source. It even happens ‘legally’ when you provide your email address and other personal information, and it is sold to marketers for their utilization. Suddenly you are receiving hundreds of spam mail, or flyers in the mail from various resources. The recent downsizing and receding economy has spurned employees who commit insider crimes in order to gain financially.
When a disgruntled employee is asked to leave the premises, a big show is made of personnel security escorting the person from the building. Locks on doors are changed, and everyone breathes a sigh of relief. How many companies instantly change passwords, change remote access schemes, and install heightened security? Not many, if at all.
Sometimes an employee will commit insider crime for no other reason than it was available, an opportunity too good to pass up. Leave a new, high end car running unattended with the keys in the ignition, expect someone to look around, take stock of their sudden good fortune, think about means of escape, and abscond with the easy merchandise. Same thing happens with insider acts of crime. Employees are given access to sensitive data. Sometimes it is nothing more than a sense of curiosity that gets the best of them. Once they have breached the wall of common sense, privacy issues and compliance is far behind them and quickly vanishing. If the data exists, someone will eventually locate it, depending on how valuable it is and the identity of the person the data represents. Not only do organizations need some sort of procedure in place concerning a report structure to inform management of infractions, but employee training should become a necessity as well.
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