Adversaries Are Eyeing Your IT Staff. Why Aren’t You?

By Scott Stewart, VP of Tactical Analysis, Stratfor – Re-Blogged From Stratfor

Highlights

• Information technology (IT) personnel often have access to communications, applications and data storage that contains a company’s most valuable proprietary information and trade secrets.
• As a result, espionage actors often consider disgruntled and underpaid IT employees as prime targets for human intelligence recruitment.
• To mitigate this risk, companies should take measures to ensure their IT staffers are happy, well-respected and fairly compensated for their work.
• Because of their access to highly coveted data, they should also be subjected to the same security protocols as the rest of the staff.

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On the Abandonment of Logic

By Andi Cockroft – Re-Blogged From http://www.WattsUpWithThat.com

As I have outlined several times here, I am no scientist, despite having studied at University. But by far and away the vast quantity of learning has been obtained during life’s journey – both good and bad. All contribute to a depth of knowledge impossible to achieve through any 3 or 4 years of “Higher” education.

So what if I am not a qualified psychologist? How are psychologists qualified in any event?