Employees the Next (Continuing) Big Security Risk?

surely_you_cant_be_serious writes "A nationwide survey finds that most companies consider their systems vulnerable to attack. Historically, crime rates increase during recessions — and some believe that cybercrime may well follow suit, especially given massive layoffs and the dim prospects many laid-off employees face in finding a new job. 'One thing companies can start doing is monitoring their networks on an ongoing basis so that they understand the normal pattern of data flow and usage, Brill said. In many cases, companies may not have the internal capability to do this, but outsourcing options are available. Kroll Ontrack, for instance, will be rolling out a 24/7 monitoring service for its global clients manned from a US location by professionals in early 2009.'"

Comments

Duh?

[eln]

Summary of story:

1.) Crime goes up when the economy goes into the tank and people start losing their jobs. Shocking, I know.
2.) There are plenty of security companies willing to scare your pants off in order to sell you expensive monitoring services. They will gladly use the statistic above to those ends.

Oh yah, and we'll throw a "cyber" prefix in front of "crime" to make this look like something new and different.

Duh?

[starfishsystems]

Move along, people. Nothing remotely new here.

Now if you want to actually do something to improve security performance, how about establishing some security metrics as a point of reference?

Remember 2003

[jellomizer]

During the time of the big viruses hit. Oddly enough it was when outsourcing became popular for IT staff. A lot of pissed off IT unemployed IT Guys and a lot of location without people local to fix the problems. Create prime virus spreading.