Need another reason to maintain good employee relations with IT professionals? To keep HR and IT talking? To improve IT security? Read on. (photo by one for the road via flickr)
An investigation of insider attacks on computer systems in critical infrastructure sectors found that in most cases the primary motivation for the attacks appears to have been revenge, according to the Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center.
Companies hoping to mitigate their exposure
to insider attacks need to ensure they have good password, account and configuration management practices, as well as the right processes in place for disabling network access when employees are terminated.
Also crucial are the need to have formal processes for handling employee grievances and negative events in the workplace as well as for reporting suspicious behavior, according to a report released last week by the U.S. Secret Service and Carnegie Mellon University’s CERT coordination center. . .
In 92% of the cases
, a negative work-related event triggered the insider action.Computerworld (via Symantec): “Study Finds Insider Revenge a Frequent Cyberattack Motive” by Jaikumar Vijayan
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