Submission + - Link between IT sabotage and IT workers
jcatcw writes: Workers who sabotage corporate systems are almost always IT workers who are frequently late, argumentative, paranoid, or generally poor performers, according to a Carnegie Mellon study titled "Management and Education of the Risk of Insider Threat (MERIT): System Dynamics Modeling of Computer System Sabotage."
From the article: "According to the research, 86% of those who committed cybercrimes held technical positions and 90% had system administrator or privileged system access. Almost half — 41% — of those who sabotaged IT systems were employed at the time they did it but most crimes were committed by insiders following termination. Most incursions — 64% — involved VPNs and old passwords that had never been terminated, highlighting a lack of security controls and gaps in their organizations' access controls."
From the article: "According to the research, 86% of those who committed cybercrimes held technical positions and 90% had system administrator or privileged system access. Almost half — 41% — of those who sabotaged IT systems were employed at the time they did it but most crimes were committed by insiders following termination. Most incursions — 64% — involved VPNs and old passwords that had never been terminated, highlighting a lack of security controls and gaps in their organizations' access controls."