The enemy within the firewall

[Kristijntje]

Employees are now regarded as a greater danger to workplace cyber security than the gangs of hackers and virus writers launching targeted attacks from outside the firewall.

That is the perception of 75 per cent of Australian information technology managers who took part in an international IBM security survey.

With email and instant messaging proving increasingly popular and devices such as laptop computers, mobile phones and USB storage devices more commonplace in the office, the opportunities for workplace crime are growing...

full article: http://www.theage.com.au/news/breaking/t...93208.html

[jezebel]

Employees are now regarded as a greater danger to workplace cyber security than the gangs of hackers and virus writers launching targeted attacks from outside the firewall.

Insiders and employees are the top security problem in the office too.  Theft of company equipment and inventory, missing toilet paper in the stalls, broken glass on the copy machines after drunken office Christmas party orgies.

[rose]

Insiders and employees are the top security problem in the office too.

The way many employers treat their employees could contribute to the problem.