After a week of incidents, Register vultures pick over the innards
KETTLE In this week’s Kettle the topic is one that’s been much in the news this week – the much-underrated insider threat issue.
There are thousands of security shops willing to sell elaborate firewalls, zero-trust barriers, and AI security systems that claims to be able to spot a wrong’un easily. But time and again the most effective thieves are already inside the building and using their corporate-issued credentials.
Such was the case this week in the NSA of all places, where a rogue systems engineer, who resigned in anger, tried to sell purloined documents to a Russian agent in exchange for cryptocurrency. Brandon Vigliarolo covered the case and explains what motivated the plot and the surprisingly easy way he was discovered.
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