Former Snowden investigator: Bumbling bureaucracy means insiders get away with it
You’ve identified an employee is stealing business critical information. What now? Who needs to know? Who can take action? Is this a CEO issue or an HR issue?
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How to recognise the cyber insider threat
Losing business to a competitor because one of your trusted employees has walked out the door with sensitive information doesn’t need to happen if you look for the signs and put controls in place, according to a panel of cyber security experts.
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Security guard pleads guilty to hacking his employer
A former security guard has pleaded guilty to charges that he broke into his employer's computers while working the night shift at a Dallas hospital.
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US State Dept. worker sentenced for passport snooping
An employee of the U.S. Department of State was sentenced Wednesday to 12 months of probation for illegally accessing more than 125 electronic passport application files, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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Microsoft settles employee spying case
Microsoft has settled a lawsuit with a former employee that it once charged with fraud, misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract.
Features about insider threats
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A Practical Approach to Protecting Trade Secrets
Trade secrets are increasingly becoming a company's most valuable assets, and not surprisingly, threats to those assets have increased concomitantly. The greatest threat to company data is, of course, not outsiders but a company's own employees A company's ability to protect against rogue employees (as well as against unintentional harm) is governed by both federal and state laws, which vary by jurisdiction and, worse, are in a state of flux in many of those jurisdictions.