ISR News: 2009 - Year of the Insider Threat
Excerpt From BankInfoSecurity.com
The increased number of employers handing out pink slips doesn’t help quell the threat, with a record number of people on the unemployment lines and others at work worried about their own positions. “We’re going to see some insider events where insiders are tempted enough by money to enable these compromises to take place from outsiders, allowing access to payment data and account information,” says Mike Urban, Senior Director of Fraud Solutions at Fair Isaac, predicts,
Cyber Insecurity is Destroying Innovation
From The Cyber Security Institute
Insecurity is the greatest impediment to innovation. And this hurts America most of all. The United States simply cannot win in an economic race based almost exclusively on lower costs of production. We cannot compete on that footing against other nations where wages and benefits are vastly lower, standards of living for the majority of the people are abysmal, and health care is the ultimate luxury good of the elites. Other nations are uniquely able to re-engineer and make at a lower cost the things that Americans and others around the world need. If we run that race to the bottom we lose-win, lose or draw.
