Some employees willing to use company data to snag job at competitor
Summary
A Tuesday report based on a survey of IT security professionals conducted by Gurucul revealed a few items that should raise a red flag for business owners and upper management. Polling 476 IT security professionals around the world at the 2019 Blackhat USA Conference in early August, Gurucul found that 24% of respondents admitted that they would take company information to help them apply for a more senior role at a competitor. Other respondents pointed to such motivators as gaining a competitive advantage, damaging the reputation of their company, revenge, and the sheer challenge of it. Suppliers, external developers, service contractors, and other third parties often possess access to critical systems through which they can log in and retrieve data. "Since detecting insider threats by employees and trusted third parties is the ultimate game of cat and mouse, many leading edge security organizations are using machine learning to compare the behavior of all users against established baselines of normal activity.
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