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An interesting legal case of insider threat that I came across from . . . somewhere, I can't remember now. Competing Canadian airlines are accusing each other of corporate espionage including unauthorized accessed to documents and computer systems. The case seems to hinge on the status of individuals who were formerly employed by one airline and then went to work for the other, but retained access to the systems. Some early lessons from the case:

1) disable the accounts of employees who leave the organization - This seems straightforward enough, but this case proves in glowing fashion that this is still not done by every company. It's a lapse in security that may be inexcusable and may make it difficult to prove network security practices are in place.

2) insiders (or former insiders) represent the largest security threat to your organization - Those who know your system configuration and where critical information is stored cna get in and out quickly and do the greatest damage, either to your competitive information or to your actual data in storage.

3) competitive strategies that include stealing information from your competitors are not viable in the long-term



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