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The Inside Threat

By: Nigel Stanley
Format: Spotlight
Published: May 2007

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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 their 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 paper will give you a detailed discussion of this inside threat and presents a case for businesses to consider the mitigation of such threats as importantly as they consider the generation of profits.

Managing the inside threat is a core activity of the Bloor Assured Business Model which articulates the IT security domain as it affects businesses. It is only by investing in reducing the inside threat today that you can protect the profits from tomorrow. Action needs to be taken now.