Internal Threats To Security Are Increasing

Date: March 03, 2005
Source: Computer Crime Research Center
By: Richard Hunter

Enterprises are watching employees and employees are watching employers with increasing unease on both sides. In our global economy with its fluid workforce, in which longstanding relationships of trust are difficult to establish and maintain, the temptation for businesses is clear: monitor every employee, all the time.

Employees are feeding the distrust. Many enterprises live with the lost-time cost of widespread employee abuse of e-mail and Internet access. But it's much worse than that. Gartner estimates that more than 70 percent of unauthorized access to information systems is committed by employees, as are more than 95 percent of intrusions that result in significant financial losses. Add to that the mind-boggling potential for carefully planned crimes of mass destruction and you can see the temptation to impose rigid security measures.

"Seventy percent of unauthorized access to information systems is committed by employees."
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