Hacking Exposed Malware & Rootkits

Every security conference and security study today is focused on getting enterprise security administrators and home users to understand the threat from the inside. Insider threats are growing and becoming more malicious. Theft for financial gain, IT sabotage, and business advantage are the three largest categories of insider attacks. Security experts say the user is causing the problem and the user is the threat. The experts are technically correct, but the actual user himself or herself is not always the true threat to an organization but rather the role or access that user has. If a secretary has enough user privileges to view the Accounting folder on the network file share, then so does the malware that infected her machine.


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