CHAPTER 11

Answer Guide

CHAPTER 1

QUESTIONS FOR ONLINE OR CLASSROOM DISCUSSION

1.  If insider threats are indeed rare, and most people are not trust betrayers, how does this affect the ability to carry out research into hostile insiders?   It limits selection of methodologies. For example, statistical analysis will likely be less fruitful than for a more commonly occurring event. In addition, this limits opportunities to examine trust betrayers closely, although individuals involved in performing damage assessments by debriefing traitors do have opportunities to see patterns emerging over time.   How do you account for the claim that hostile insider action is comparatively rare?   It could be that most people, most of the time, are “neither saving ...

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