Insider Threat
Abstract
Any employee must be given a modicum of trust to accomplish his assigned duties. Even the janitorial staff requires physical access to the building, and usually after hours. How many businesses have a janitor/telecom closet where the cleaning supplies sit happily next to the fiber drop for the entire building? Insiders require physical and logical access to company resources, and in complex systems, the insider gains inadvertent elevated access. Managerial staff often mollifies the breadth and depth of insider activity to save embarrassment. The insider threat is real and the damage done by insiders is increasing exponentially with more dependence ...
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