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Insider Threat Controlling who gains access to what on computer networks is vitally important and devilishly hard. Success stories can help.
Insider Threat

http://www.governmentexecutive.com/features/1107-01/1107-01s1.htm

By Jill R. Aitoro 
Government Executive 
November 1, 2007 

Controlling who gains access to what on computer networks is vitally
important and devilishly hard. Success stories can help.

In February 2001, the FBI arrested one of its own veteran
counterintelligence agents, Robert Philip Hanssen, for providing
classified information to Russia and the former Soviet Union. Hanssen
gave up more than 6,000 pages of documents, most of which he pulled from
the FBI's own computers.

Such an audacious breach might seem impossible in this post-Sept. 11 era
of system lockdown, but the conditions that permitted it persist.

The FBI continues to have major weaknesses in its critical computer
network. It still fails to properly identify and authenticate users or
consistently configure network devices and services to prevent
unauthorized insider access, the Government Accountability Office
reported in April (GAO-07-368).

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