Insider/employee caused breaches on rise?
Report published by the federal Office of Inspector General
- Claims that most systems at NASA are at risk from insider threats
- “the vast majority of its IT systems – including many containing high-value assets and critical infrastructure – are unclassified and are therefore not covered by its current insider threat program”
- “may be facing a higher-than-necessary risk to its unclassified systems and data”
- “valuable data including information related to critical infrastructure and other high-value assets resides in unclassified systems”
- “an insider threat incident on an unclassified system could post serious jeopardy to operations”
- “vulnerable (to employees) collecting and delivering information to outside sources”