When Trusted IT People Go Bad

When Trusted IT People Go Bad
(Published at ConsiderChapter13.org on 1/31/11.

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Introduction By Vijay Malik. Mr. Malik is a law student at Creighton University where he is Research Assistant to Prof. Michaela White

The 2010 Cyber Security Watch Survey, conducted by CSO Magazine in conjunction with
the Secret Service, CERT (a program of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University), and Deloitte,
found that three-quarters of companies victimized by rogue IT employees fail to disclose such matters to
the public, preferring to handle . . .

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