David Doe is a network administrator for the ABC Company. David is passed over for promotion three times. He is quite vocal in his dissatisfaction with this situation. In fact, he begins to express negative opinions about the organization in general. Eventually, David quits and begins his own consulting business. Six months after David’s departure, it is discovered that a good deal of the ABC Company’s research has suddenly been duplicated by a competitor. Executives at ABC suspect that David Doe has done some consulting work for this competitor and may have passed on sensitive data. However, in the interim since David left, his computer has been formatted and reassigned to another person. ABC has no evidence that David Doe did anything wrong.
What steps might have been taken to detect David’s alleged industrial espionage?
What steps might have been taken to prevent his perpetrating such an offense?
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The steps to be followed to detect are as follows:
1) Know the on going threats : Knowing various attacks would help to analyze and identify the threat better.
2) People with insider knowledge would be most dangerous. Hence providing access is to be restricted.
3) IT Security reports are to be checked thoroughly and suspected IP is to be noted down.
4) Using the latest detection tool for identify and focus on checking the anomaly, malware and prone to attacks.
5) Checking the system logs would also help.
The steps which might prevent perpetration are as follows:
1) Knowing the ongoing threats that can affect a system, and the system which can be affected by the attacker.
2) Updating the IT security of the organization.
3) Using advanced detection tools to be able to detect the issues at a higher rate and in an efficient way.
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