From: InformationWeek/DarkReading
New rule requires US government contractors to gather and report information on insider threat activity on classified networks.
In June 1953, American cartoonist Walt Kelly wrote about human frailty in the introduction to The Pogo Papers, a compilation of his cartoon strip, Pogo:
There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.
Kelly’s words ring especially true today with respect to the murky underworld of cybercrime and insider threats. According to a 2012 financial services sector study by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), the impact of insider attacks is considerable. Each attack, which, on average, remains undetected for 32 months, costs the victim between $382,750 and $479,000. More frightening still is the fact that over a third of insider attacks target the personally identifiable information (PII) of either employees or customers.
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