1.1. Information Security
Consider the following scenario. A former network administrator at a manufacturing plant thought he had destroyed not only his former employer's manufacturing capabilities but also the evidence that would link him to the crime. The trusted, 11-year employee built and maintained the network at the company. When he fell from corporate grace and knew he was to be fired for performance and behavioral problems, he built a software time bomb to destroy the system.
Three weeks after the network administrator was fired, a plant worker started the day by logging on to the central file server. Instead of booting up, a message came on the screen saying an area of the operating system was being fixed. Then the server crashed, and ...
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