Former Employees Stealing Corporate Data

We hear of a lot of insider threats these days with disgruntled employees who have been fired but earlier this month, a former COO of an on demand startup left the company due to tensions with the founders and landed a job with their competition to aid in the company’s international growth. The issue here is that before he left, the former executive has been accused of copying a treasure of confidential data to...

We hear of a lot of insider threats these days with disgruntled employees who have been fired but earlier this month, a former COO...

It is scary enough that intelligence officials say cyber security no trumps terrorism as the No. 1 threat to the U.S. With the most recent data breach attacks on the White House and Office of Personnel Management, this is just the tip of concern for the federal government. However, it gets even scarier when these breaches are insider threats on the nation’s critical infrastructure. Based on research from a recent article, in April 2011, a...

It is scary enough that intelligence officials say cyber security no trumps terrorism as the No. 1 threat to the U.S. With the most...

Without a doubt, 2014 is well on its way to replace 2013 as the highest year on record for exposed records. In the first quarter of 2014 alone a record 43% of American companies reported experiencing hacks according to a study released by the Ponemon Institute. According to the 2014 Identity Theft Resource Center Breach Report, in all the following categories combined (banking/credit/financial, business, educational, government/military and medical/healthcare) as of November 3, 2014 a...

Without a doubt, 2014 is well on its way to replace 2013 as the highest year on record for exposed records. In the first...

From the FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to the FCC all the way up to the White House is pushing for stronger data security measures amongst organizations that deal with sensitive customer information. Just last week, the FCC fined two telecommunication companies $10 million, for neglecting to protect over 300,000 customers’ personally identifiable information (PII). This is the FCC’s first data security case and its largest privacy violation action ever. The telecoms failed...

From the FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to the FCC all the way up to the White House is pushing for stronger data...

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