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Overcoming the insider: reducing employee computer crime through Situational Crime Prevention.

The article discusses employee computer crime and crime prevention. Organizations have increased their demand for and dependence on information security due to a higher incidence of employee computer crimes. The 2006 Global Security Survey by Deloitte & Touche LLP found that 28% of participating org...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 9; pp. 133 - 138
Main Authors: WILLISON, ROBERT, SIPONEN, MIKKO
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Sep2009
Subjects:
Computer security
Data security
Computer crimes
Prevention of employee crimes
Information technology
Business planning
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses employee computer crime and crime prevention. Organizations have increased their demand for and dependence on information security due to a higher incidence of employee computer crimes. The 2006 Global Security Survey by Deloitte & Touche LLP found that 28% of participating organizations experienced a large amount of internal computer fraud. Employees can pose a higher threat to organizations than outside computer hackers due to their unique knowledge of the corporation such as security vulnerabilities and skills gained that are specific to that company.