Long gone are those times of yore, when “IT security” was universally understood to mean “hackers on the outside trying to break in and steal your data.” Spare a moment for those simpler days, now gone for good.
Today IT security can mean almost anything: threats coming from both inside and outside the company, done deliberately or through innocent—but dumb—mistakes, and in a new form almost every month. And the biggest fear is not necessarily loss of valuable company data; just as bad, or worse, can be the publicity or regulatory fines for the blunder.
