Prevent and detect insider threat from government subcontractors

Overview:

As network defenses get stronger and stronger, IT, security, law enforcement, and intelligence professionals have come to realize that the greatest threats to their networks are increasingly coming from within their own organizations. These insiders, whether current and former employees or contractors, have inside knowledge of a target network that enables them to carry out acts of sabotage, espionage, and theft of data. This is particularly true of government contractors, whose employees are responsible for about 24% of espionage cases. Furthermore, preventing and detecting insider threat here is perhaps more difficult than any other environment: the lack of bureaucracy that makes contracting companies appealing to governments can mean lack of oversight and enable lone insiders to hide their activity like rogue traders without a visible back office. Investigate the nature and extent of insider threat posed to government agencies by contracting companies in this sample chapter from Insider Threat: Protecting the Enterprise from Sabotage, Spying, and Theft . Increased awareness of the danger of insider threat should rally management support for the resources necessary to combat it, as well as allow employees operating within government contractors to assist in the effort to fight such security breaches.

Title: Insider Threat: Protecting the Enterprise from Sabotage, Spying, and Theft
ISBN: 1597490482
Published: December 2005
Authors: Dr. Eric Cole and Sandra Ring
Chapter: Chapter 7: Government Subcontractors
Published by Syngress Publishing

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