IT Employment investigate  Peter Cochrane's Blog: Have we
identified the biggest security threat?  Crooked staff? Malware?
No, the real threat could be staring us in the face...  Written
in my garden on a cold spring day with a warm coffee and the
fresh scent of blossom on the breeze, and dispatched to from the
Institute of Directors in London.  CIOs and security departments
continue to spend most of their time, money, and effort on
issues that pose a small fraction of the real threat.  At every
security gathering I attend, people generally acknowledge that
the insider threat represents the most significant risk to any
organisation. But without fail, the focus always reverts to
technology - and specifically network-borne threats.  No one
seems to know what to do about employees, part-timers,
secondees, contractors, suppliers and visitors. So the focus is
always on firewalls, working practices, memory sticks, wi-fi,
protocols and defence from attacks from Trojans, worms, viruses
and hackers. And it has been th