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Ethics in sports? Insider threat in ACC football evidenced

Nothing is sacred, as the hosts of ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, discuss. Trade secrets and intellectual property (the playbook contents) in collegiate football have value, and apparently some schools within the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) were willing recipients of plays purloined from the Wake Forest program by a Wake Forest insider.   [x_pullquote cite=”Wake Forest Football …

Insider Threat – Canadian privacy breached as PHI/PII goes missing in Manitoba

Patients in Manitoba are receiving notification from their healthcare providers, that their personal and sensitive information has been lost or inappropriately accessed. As all who have responsibility for the security of information, the insider threat is very real. Often times we associate the insider threat to be associated with the actions of nefarious individual. As you’ll read below, the breaches …

The Four Vectors Targeting Intellectual Property

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][text_output]On 18 February, CEO Prevendra, Christopher Burgess had the pleasure to present at the Seattle Technical Forum conclave, one of five, presenting on a topic within cyber security. His topic, drawn from the offerings of Prevendra’s Two-Day Knowledge Share was, The Four Vectors Targeting Intellectual Property. Those who have read, Secrets Stolen, Fortunes Lost will recognize the vectors to …

Data Leak = Data Compromise

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][share facebook=”true” twitter=”true” google_plus=”true” linkedin=”true” pinterest=”true” email=”true”][text_output] Have you experienced a data compromise lately? The old adages “still water finds its own level” and “moving water finds a path of least resistance” both have applicability when we think of the result of a data leak. How do employees’ engage with data loss prevention (DLP) processes, policies, procedures, and software, …

Espionage in the Heartland: Rice to China

On 12 December 2013, a criminal complaint was filed by the United States Attorney in the Kansas District, petitioning for the arrest of two individuals, with ties to China, for the theft of  trade secrets from Ventria Bioscience and other companies. Subsequently, these same two individuals were indicted for “conspiracy to steal trade secrets” by a federal grand jury on …

Espionage in the Heartland: Corn to China

Espionage in the heartland of the United States? For two-plus years, perhaps for as many as four, a different type of harvesting has been occurring throughout the heartland of the United States. According to the criminal complaint (see below), filed by the United States Attorney, Nicholas A. Klinefeldt, a Chinese company, Kings Nower Seed, and their personnel have been harvesting more …

Industrial Espionage in Small/Medium Enterprises – ThomasNet

  On 17 October 2013, ThomasNet ran a piece on industrial espionage (“Industrial Espionage Threats to SMEs Originate from Within“), and interviewed Prevendra’s CEO, Christopher Burgess on some of the fundamental issues and distinguishing the difference between ethical data collection and espionage.    [custom_blockquote style=”blue”] Christopher Burgess, CEO of Prevendra Inc., a security, privacy and intelligence firm based in Washington, told IMT that …

Secrets Stolen, Fortunes Lost

Secrets Stolen, Fortunes Lost, Preventing Intellectual Property Theft and Economic Espionage in the 21st Century (Syngress 2008 –  by Christopher Burgess and Richard Power) The threats of economic espionage and intellectual property (IP) theft are global, stealthy, insidious, and increasingly common. According to the U.S. Commerce Department, IP theft is estimated to top $250 billion annually and also costs the …