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Workplace monitoring - hell hath no fury like an employee scorned

by Steve - Posted 10 July 2005

According to a recent study conducted by the National Threat Assessment Centre of US Secret Service, most insider attacks on company information systems are carried out by disgruntled employees often with prior disciplinary records. This makes common sense, but what is more worrying is that only 17% of attacks are carried out by individuals with "administrator" status. 87% of attacks are carried out  using simple user commands.

So while you are keeping out the crackers and hackers, remember Joe in Accounting who was passed over for promotion last month.