The Insider Threat, and the New Program Offering Assessments.
7/21/2008
The Identity Theft Resource Center reported this week that nearly 16 percent of breaches so far this year came from insiders, up from 6 percent in 2007, and 11.7 percent came from attackers outside the company -- down from 14.1 percent last year.
Insider-borne attacks have doubled in the last year, according to a new report, and one organization is launching an assessment program to help enterprises protect themselves against them.
Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute’s CERT Program, meanwhile, is about to roll out an insider risk assessment program pilot that helps organizations pinpoint where and how they’re vulnerable to an insider attack.
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