The biggest single threat to your IT operation is someone you probably know by name. Think about it. Who knows better how to penetrate your systems--a hacker or someone down the hall who already has access to your systems? . . .
The biggest single threat to your IT operation is someone you probably know by name. Think about it. Who knows better how to penetrate your systems--a hacker or someone down the hall who already has access to your systems?

IT departments' employees, especially administrators, have access to the organisation's most confidential and valuable data, yet IT managers continue to focus most of their security resources on patching systems and building better firewalls (both of which are certainly important). Perhaps this is because they are afraid to acknowledge the real threat of an insider attack, or perhaps it's because they don't know how to deal with it. We're going to take a closer look at this problem and provide some suggestions.

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