Topic: SECURITY - on December 11, 2011 at 5:06:00 PM CET
The Art Of Profiling Cybercriminals
He's a white, 37-year-old engineer in your organization, and he feels justified in selling out your intellectual property to a foreign country because he's miffed about getting overlooked for a promotion. He has had a history of mental health problems, and his marriage is on the rocks as he faces personal financial issues.
Those are some of the common characteristics of the perfect storm for a typical malicious insider who steals and profits from his organization's trade secrets, according to a new report authored by psychologists with expertise in risk management and forensic psychology. The "Behavioral Risk Indicators of Malicious Insider Theft of Intellectual Property" research paper by Drs. Eric Shaw and Harley Stock was commissioned by Symantec and draws from real-world malicious insider cases.
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