28th Oct 2016
Show me the computer that can laugh at a good joke and maybe I’ll believe that machines are a better judge of character than humans. However smart artificial intelligence has become, machines still struggle to interpret sentiment, subtlety and the trickiest things in human language: irony, double-meanings and a play on words. “Did you hear...
20th Oct 2016
There’s a modern workplace myth that even your best employees believe… and it could cost you dearly. They think that the work they do belongs to them. All those strategy documents, product designs and customer lists that employees build on company time are their own intellectual property, or so the workplace myth goes. You know...
Tags: company data, insider threats
23rd Sep 2016
You’ll find three patterns of behavior in most businesses. There’s the good: the default behavior of diligent employees who are ambitious and always eager to get the best job done. Then there’s the bad: typically shown by folks who are looking ahead to their next career move and always aiming to take more than they...
Tags: data loss, insider threats
07th Sep 2016
Picture a solid business, much like your own, with good prospects and high ambitions for the future. Sitting at his desk in your office is your in-house accountant. Let’s call him Bob. Bob is a quiet kind of guy. He puts in his hours – and more when needed – without complaint and without a...
Tags: data theft, insider threats
27th Aug 2016
“This isn’t just a technical issue. A huge amount of our problems relate to human issues,” said one of the researchers according to SC Magazine. The two cited a range of 120 independent cases from 2013 to back their claims. These studies found that 88% of the insiders were permanent employees and nearly half were...
Tags: insider threats, sc magazine