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The human factor in espionage

Giri Sivanesan

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Abstract

People will always be the weakest link in the battle to protect corporate information and data from attackers. Attacks by hackers on businesses are increasingly being committed with similar modus operandi to corporate espionage carried out by foreign states and state-sponsored attackers. As the capabilities of security technology improve, hackers are now targeting individuals to get at the electronic information they want. This raises an intriguing mix of problems and issues for today's corporate security managers.

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People will always be the weakest link in the battle to protect corporate information and data from attackers. Attacks by hackers on businesses are increasingly being committed with similar modus operandi to corporate espionage carried out by foreign states and state-sponsored attackers. As the capabilities of security technology improve, hackers are now targeting individuals to get at the electronic information they want. This raises an intriguing mix of problems and issues for today's corporate security managers.

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People will always be the weakest link in the battle to protect corporate information and data from attackers. Attacks by hackers on businesses are increasingly being committed with similar modus operandi to corporate espionage carried out by foreign states and state-sponsored attackers. As the capabilities of security technology improve, hackers are now targeting individuals to get at the electronic information they want. This raises an intriguing mix of problems and issues for today's corporate security managers.

Key concepts: Hacker, Espionage, Computer security, Battle, Industrial espionage, Business, Information security, State (computer science)

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