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    Enemy at the Water Cooler: True Stories of Insider Threats and Enterprise Security Management Countermeasures
    Enemy at the Water Cooler: True Stories of Insider Threats and Enterprise Security Management Countermeasures
    Enemy at the Water Cooler: True Stories of Insider Threats and Enterprise Security Management Countermeasures
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    Enemy at the Water Cooler: True Stories of Insider Threats and Enterprise Security Management Countermeasures

    By Brian T Contos

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    The book covers a decade of work with some of the largest commercial and government agencies around the world in addressing cyber security related to malicious insiders (trusted employees, contractors, and partners). It explores organized crime, terrorist threats, and hackers. It addresses the steps organizations must take to address insider threats at a people, process, and technology level.

    Today’s headlines are littered with news of identity thieves, organized cyber criminals, corporate espionage, nation-state threats, and terrorists. They represent the next wave of security threats but still possess nowhere near the devastating potential of the most insidious threat: the insider. This is not the bored 16-year-old hacker. We are talking about insiders like you and me, trusted employees with access to information - consultants, contractors, partners, visitors, vendors, and cleaning crews. Anyone in an organization’s building or networks that possesses some level of trust.

    * Full coverage of this hot topic for virtually every global 5000 organization, government agency, and individual interested in security.

    * Brian Contos is the Chief Security Officer for one of the most well known, profitable and respected security software companies in the U.S.—ArcSight.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSyngress
    Release dateOct 30, 2006
    ISBN9780080477602
    Enemy at the Water Cooler: True Stories of Insider Threats and Enterprise Security Management Countermeasures
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    Brian T Contos

    Brian T. Contos, CISSP, Chief Security Officer, ArcSight Inc. has over a decade of real-world security engineering and management expertise developed in some of the most sensitive and mission-critical environments in the world. As ArcSight's CSO he advises government organizations and Global 1,000s on security strategy related to Enterprise Security Management (ESM) solutions while being an evangelist for the security space. He has delivered security-related speeches, white papers, webcasts, podcasts and most recently published a book on insider threats titled – Enemy at the Water Cooler. He frequently appears in media outlets including: Forbes, The London Times, Computerworld, SC Magazine, Tech News World, Financial Sector Technology and the Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal. Mr. Contos has held management and engineering positions at Riptech, Lucent Bell Labs, Compaq Computers and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). He has worked throughout North America, South America, Western Europe, and Asia and holds a B.S. from the University of Arizona in addition to a number of industry and vendor certifications.

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