while reading this book on insider threats (available on books24x7.com):
“Insider Threat: Protecting the Enterprise from Sabotage, Spying, and Theft
Manage Book
Purchase a printed copy of this book
by Eric Cole and Sandra Ring
Syngress Publishing ? 2006 (424 pages)
ISBN:1597490482
Written to teach IT professionals and law enforcement officials about the dangers posed by insiders to their IT infrastructures, this pertinent book reveals ways to mitigate these risks.”
I came across this great link to a 228 page PDF of a book published by Beijing co. The fellow has some quite lucid views on hacking, warfare, cyberwarfare. Good reading for anyone who wants to know the state of the world, and foreign views of US military, kind of a modern Sun-Tsou:
www.terrorism.com/documents/TRC-Analysis/unrestricted.pdf
they make a great case that insider data theft, data destruction, etc are even more prevalent than external attacks:
There’s also link to viack report with FBI stats which supports the supposition that insider threats are worse than external attacks:
http://www.viack.com/_download/200408_cdm.pdf
Is everyone out there still concentrating on firewalls and external threats?