The Inside Threat

It only takes a single mouse click from a disgruntled or incompetent member of your staff to destroy your business. Or maybe a diligent employee takes work home to put some extra effort in and finds his laptop stolen.

Key intellectual property, customer lists, financial data, credit card details. The list of sensitive data held by organisations goes on and on.

Whilst you may have secured the external access to your IT systems using passwords and firewalls those inside the organisation will often have full and unfettered access to your most sensitive data, irrespective of their job role or entitlement.

USB drives and handheld devices now pose a huge threat to the integrity of organisational data.

This is the first of a two part report.  The second paper in our Incoming Thought Special Report series will examine what can be done to address the inside threat.

What is the Inside Threat?

Most businesses and organisations have in place basic security arrangements that enable them to conduct their day to day work.

For many this will entail the provision of a relatively safe and protected building for employees to come to work secure in the knowledge that they will be able to leave the premises at the end of the day without either harming themselves or the business.