‘Watching The Watchers’ this weeks Cyber Insights from The National Cyber Skills Centre
You have seen the movie, where a good guy goes rogue. They had access to privileged information, usually of national importance and through a set of circumstances uses this information against their former colleagues to obtain some form of gain – financial or otherwise. Now depending on what side you are on this can be a good thing or a bad, but for the sake of argument, we will stick with it being a bad thing to happen. You don’t have to look far for real world examples of this occurring, does the name Edward Snowden mean anything to you? Of course, it does, he had access to information and then used it against his former employers. Was his access privileges checked? I’m guessing not.
Who inside your organisation is a ‘privileged user’ and do you know what they can do?...
Read more over at Cyber Insights, brought to you by the National Cyber Skills Centre.
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