Entries Tagged as 'administrative privilege'
by Jay Heiser | March 19, 2010 | Comments Off
Lately, we’ve been having some discussions about what to do with privileged users, and how to protect your organization from hostile administrators. Ant Allan, Andrew Walls and I have just collected a lot of this material into a new research note. Ultimately, there’s only so much you can do. If you hire crooks, or if [...]
Category: risk management security Tags: administrative privilege, administrator risks, data leakage, industrial espionage, insider threat, loyalty, morale, sabotage
by Jay Heiser | March 19, 2010 | Comments Off
I’ve recently become aware of several incidents of client data being lost because their service provider administrators had managed to infect their administrative workstations with malware. If your service provider were to suffer an embarassing failure like that, would they tell you? Before allowing an outsider to have privileged access to any of your systems, [...]
Category: risk management security Tags: administrative privilege, administrator risks, infection, malware, notification, outsourcing, security, service provider risks
