Inside IT Security & Privileged Users Management

It’s an uncomfortable topic, but the truth is that employees present one of the most serious information security threats for every organization. 

‘Governance, risk and compliance’. Three words that are the stuff of nightmares for senior managers. Not because they have done anything wrong, but because the breadth and scope of this area continues to grow exponentially.

In our daily lives, we all commit our souls signing a contract of employment. Whether an employee or a contractor, similar rules apply when it comes to respecting company data and the associated data policies.

A few weeks ago, Google’s employee details were leaked by a third party company. Although this was an innocent error, it’s worth considering how much worse it could so easily have been?

We live in an age in which many if not most crimes involve a computer at some point, but we still know very little about cyber criminals and what makes them tick.