Insider Threat-The Right Focus

Frankly, this book does a great job addressesing major problem. Companies must be aware of and manage risk to economic, sensitive and classified information espionage. I have to say that Sandra Ring and Dr. Cole have it right on. Security Manager focus should be on the insider threat.

I have had the opportunity to hear one of the authors speak at a recent security event. The speaker correctly addressed that the largest security threat to any company is from the insider-the one with all the access.

A cyber or network catastrophe is one disgruntled employee away. The speaker gave example after example of former employees who felt both an ownership of the product and a significant employer betrayer. This and their access to sensitive information have allowed and opportunity to steal customer information, sabotage networks or software, or sell data to competing companies.

They recommend rightly that Security managers should focus efforts on protecting proprietary and identity revealing information. This protection should include protecting trade secrets, establishing good termination procedures, learning to recognized disgruntled employees, use password protection and realizing that with networks and internet, an outside threat could easily become an inside threat.

I look forward to learning more from this book and applying it to my business.

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