One in four workers would steal information to get a job at a competitor

Would you take information from your employer to help you get a job at a competitor? 24 percent would according to a new survey of almost 500 IT professionals carried out at Blackhat USA 2019. The survey by behavior-based security specialist Gurucul finds that managed service providers (34 percent) and developers (30 percent) pose the leading sources of third party risk, and that if someone was to commit fraud it would most likely occur in the finance department (32 percent). "What these findings show is that insider fraud is a top concern among IT security professionals, as are the security… [Continue Reading]