Information Theft Prevention

1 Understanding Internal Information Theft

A Case of Retail Business

1.1. Introduction

This book is about preventing internal information theft in retail business. We therefore begin by answering an essential first question, namely, What is information theft? We answer this question by discussing the concept of information theft, and we contextualise the theft within retail business. The expected second question is, Why should you bother with prevention of internal information theft? We answer this question by looking at overall impacts—socio-economic costs of internal information theft in retail business. These discussions are directed towards building the background to a basic question—How do you prevent internal information theft?—which is ...