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IT Security & Network Security News & Reviews: Insider Security Threats: 10 Tactics to Stop These Data Breaches
March 5, 2012 No CommentsSOURCE: eWeek
The full version of 2012 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report is being released soon. However, the report’s preliminary findings show that a vast majority of data breaches in 2011 were the result of outsiders trying to break in for malicious purposes. With those kinds of numbers, it is very easy to forget that insider attacks are often as equally devastating as, if not more devastating than, external threats. Insider attacks are very common and can happen to anyone, Dawn Cappelli, technical manager from Carnegie Mellon University’s CERT Insider Threat Center, told attendees at the 2012 RSA Conference in San Francisco.
