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Insider Threat Example: 19,000 Pieces Of Computer Equipment Stolen; Why Didn't Someone Notice?

Okay, this story begs the question, why didn't someone at the Naval Research Laboratory notice disappearing equipment...?

"Navy computer specialist sentenced for theft"

Where were the controls...physical and information security...that should have noticed 19,000 pieces of computer equipment missing...???

Yes, it says he got away with it by creating "security badges"...but there should have been some type of inventory system tracking the pieces and flagging whenever something came up missing.

The really sad thing is, it was the criminal's ex-wife who alerted law enforcement about the prolonged theft scheme; doesn't sound like th Naval Research Laboratory would ever have noticed otherwise!

10 years of stealing without anyone; incredible!

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Posted by Rebecca Herold on December 29, 2008 9:41 AM |

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Quote: "The really sad thing is, it was the criminal's ex-wife who alerted law enforcement about the prolonged theft scheme;..."

The article at the included link says "estranged wife", which leads me to believe she knew about it all those years and should be conisered an accessory. It's pretty clear she reported him ONLY because she wants to pay him back in the divorce.

Posted by: MGP | December 29, 2008 6:06 PM

MGP, indeed! Just think, if she didn't want revenge and report him, the crook might still be pilfering computer equipment! Wonder how long it would have taken until someone from the Naval Research Laboratory would have bought some of their own stolen computer equipment off eBay?

Posted by: Rebecca Herold Author Profile Page | December 30, 2008 10:08 AM

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Rebecca Herold, CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for the past two decades. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the world's best privacy experts and on their list of the best privacy consulting firms in both 2007 and 2008. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 13th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.