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Managing Information Security: Studies from real life
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Managing Information Security: Studies from real life

by Michael Krausz
January 2015
Intermediate to advanced
199 pages
3h 35m
English
IT Governance Publishing
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CHAPTER 6: MOTIVES AND REASONS

Breaches do not just happen. Breaches are committed. They are committed by determined people and facilitated by a lack of measures in one of the areas introduced in Part 1 (people, processes and technology). In this chapter, we will be taking a detailed look into the motives of people who have committed breaches, and into the basic reasons why they were able to succeed. An in-depth analysis of the author’s archives has shown that all motives can be narrowed down to four basic ones, all of them very, very human: greed, despair, a disgruntled employee seeking revenge and too lazy to remain honest, or the desire to gain an unjust business advantage. Let’s look at these in more detail.

Greed

A very basic human motive, ...

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