The Enemy Within the Firewall

Mel Tom writes to tell us The Age is reporting that many businesses are now considering employees a much bigger threat to security than most external threats. From the article: "With email and instant messaging proving increasingly popular and devices such as laptop computers, mobile phones and USB storage devices more commonplace in the office, the opportunities for workplace crime are growing."

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Then the ONLY real solution is...

[3D Monkey]

to get rid of all the employees.

Seriously, how can anyone get any work done with all this security risks running around?

Here's Some News

[mordors9]

"Ms Warwar believes that the rise in internal security attacks has come about because outside criminal gangs realise that recruiting or tricking employees to hand over insider knowledge is less expensive and traceable than other forms of cybercrime."

Gee someone ought to come up with a name for this... let's see, we can call it "Social Engineering". Hopefully no bad guys will read about this and start using it now....

Re:One thing is sure

[slapout]

It's funny. At one job I had, it wasn't allowed to defragment my own hard drive. Yet I had delete access to every table in the production database. Strange.

IT 101

[zero1101]

99% percent of the time, employees are not a threat because they're malicious...they're a threat because they're very, very stupid.