Information Security and Trade Secrets
Information Security and Trade Secrets
Dangers from the Inside: Employees as Threats to Trade Secrets
This chapter discusses the risks that rogue insiders present to corporate information security, particularly with regard to trade secrets. It argues that the biggest computer security threats and accompanying threats to a company's trade secrets originate with the company's own employees. Put in criminal law terms, employees often have the motive and the opportunity that outsiders lack. Employees usually have legal access to the trade secret information by virtue of their employment relationship and can use that access to misappropriate trade secrets. Recent statistics indicate that the large majority of computer crimes are committed by employees. The chapter provides background on trade secret law, examples of disclosures that have occurred using computers, and ends with some lessons for trade secret owners.
Keywords: information security, data security, corporate information, trade secrets, company employees, security threats, computer crimes
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