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Jul 13, 2009 Corporate Hackers

You might think that IT departments are not doing a good job since it's employees that seem to lose more data than hackers get, but I'm not sure that's true. On one hand the report mentioned in the link shows that hackers don't get into a lot of systems and that IT people generally seem to be doing a good job of securing systems. On the other hand is says lots of data is still being lost, and it's employees that are doing the losing!

As long as people have been involved with information and data, the information gets leaked. It's human nature to want to share and want to help others with their jobs. And we tend to trust people, so we tend to get fooled often through social engineering. That likely will never change as we have plenty of rules, but people still break them regularly to help friends or themselves. It's not usually malicious; it's often just to make their jobs easier.

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