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Managing the Insider Threat
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Managing the Insider Threat

by Nick Catrantzos
May 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
363 pages
13h 58m
English
CRC Press
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CHAPTER 9

Other Insider Threats

There are two kinds of light—the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

James Thurber

INTRODUCTION

Not every hostile insider poses an existential threat, nor does every threat penetrating the organization represent an insider attack. If we accept the proposition offered in the preceding chapter that existential insider threats are the most dangerous and will likely require more effort and a longer incubation period, it stands to reason that the institution will experience such menaces less frequently than other threats from within or which appear to be from within. Thus, nonexistential threats, meaning those that do not jeopardize the institution’s survival, are much more likely to surface and, by ...

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ISBN: 9781439872932