That Cyber-Attack May Be An Inside Job

About one in five security breaches are engineered by contractors or once-trusted employees. Typically these breaches are more costly and significant than conventional hacker attacks, and more likely to involve valuable assets like proprietary information or intellectual property. Holland & Knight attorneys Rose Romero and Craig Carpenter consider the implications. Among them: Companies should plan carefully how information is organized and who has access to it, and look to new technologies, like the DLP, or data leak prevention systems.