article_snippet.sent: The CPNI has identified a number of motives for employees becoming an insider threat, including theft, revenge, a hunger for notoriety, political or religious ideology and fear or coercion, where external pressure is exerted on a worker.
article_snippet.sent: A CPNI study showed that three-quarters of insider acts were carried out by employees who had no malicious intent when joining the organisation, but whose loyalties changed after recruitment.
article_snippet.sent: Disturbingly, A CPNI study also found that in many circumstances the workers had been in the workers for some years before going rogue.
article_snippet.sent: Some of the more common insider acts include unauthorised disclosure of information – such as in the case of US whistleblower Edward Snowden – process corruption (where an employee illegitimately alters an internal process for Some of the more common insider acts own ends) and corporate espionage.
article_snippet.sent: Now ‘‘the insider’’ is the growing threat, as seen in the cases of Edward Snowden and Lubitz.