Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Whilst researching for yesterday’s installment of the Insider Threat series, that I am writing over on our online training site CyberAwake, I read an article by Bret Arsenault, from Microsoft that opened with this quote: The amount of data captured, copied, and consumed is expected to grow to more than …
Recently I have covered a couple of incidents that revolve around a betrayal of trust – often called the insider threat: The Insider Threat – it may be at the top of the company… – Smart Thinking Solutions The Insider Threat and $250,000 – Smart Thinking Solutions This got me …
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I wrote about the insider threat to organisations last week: And today there is a story with an insider threat twist. The president of a Japanese Sushi company, Kobi Tanabe, has been arrested and accused of accessing information from his previous employer, through contacts and sub-ordinates who still work there. …
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What happens when the relationship between you and a trusted employee breaks down either through ill will or just the fact that they are leaving and taking your client database with them? This is the insider threat. In the case of a “high-profile financial company in Hawaii”, a former employee who …
I reported on the information leak that LockBit suffered when one of the hacker developers has a spat and leaked the software code. Security software vendors would have been checking out this code to improve their defences but there was also the opportunity for less experienced hackers to improve their …
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