Articles about Internal Threat

External attacks are still the No. 1 way in which data is stolen at 69 percent of all breaches. Continue Reading »

It is unclear why he used the data in an unauthorized way. Continue Reading »

Childs faces five years in prison. Continue Reading »

Last summer, my colleague Mike Vizard wrote an interesting article called "At What Price Security?" that questions the way enterprises approach security in terms of funding and infrastructure. Continue Reading »

Terry Childs faces a maximum of five years in prison for violating California's computer crime law. Continue Reading »

Sixty-one percent of federal IT pros believe the United States is at risk for a major cyber attack within the next year. Continue Reading »

Discussions about cloud computing are currently ever-present in the media. This is largely due to the question of security, coming up, when sensitive data, abstracted IT infratstructure, complete software packages and program environments, adapted dynamically to demands, are made available over the network. Continue Reading »

A big part of the problem, according to the GAO, is that the agency has no comprehensive security-management system in place. Continue Reading »

When former Transportation Security Administration employee Douglas Duchak was indicted last week for attempting to load malicious code onto agency servers, it hopefully served as a reminder to all of us that insider threats are not idle ones. Continue Reading »

Lora Bentley spoke with PacketMotion marketing VP Jonathan Gohstand about the risk insiders can pose to company networks, especially those administrators who "hold the keys to the digital kingdom," so to speak. Continue Reading »