Is this horse dead yet? As long as humans are involved there will always be an “insider threat”.
From Silicon:
Employees are still one of the biggest threats to corporate IT security both through malicious and accidental actions.
Vipin Samar, VP of database security at Oracle, said: “You see a whole range of people through which your security is being compromised – not just hackers.”
Samar labelled the cast of security risk employees as Curious Cat, Complacent Connie, Forgetful Floyd, Rushing Rupa, Insider Ian and Malicious Malfoy – named after no-good Harry Potter character, Draco Malfoy.
Curious Cat, although not malicious, will look at data they shouldn’t be looking at, making it vulnerable to more dubious characters.
Meanwhile, Complacent Connie assumes that as nothing has happened as a result of their activity previously, nothing will happen if they do it again.
Um, OK?
