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Shilovich Oleg Borisovich
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Krasnodar office of the Rostov State Transport University
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Nine out of ten acts of sabotage are committed by
people one way or another associated with information
technologies. According to experts at InfoWatch,
developer of systems to protect confidential
information from insiders, the reason for this
profession lies in the psychological characteristics of
these employees. Reading more will allow
understanding the problem with a couple of examples
from the life that most powerfully illustrate typical
traits of professionals in the information environment.
And, although the first teller did not hide his name, the
second one decided to remain anonymous. Deep
psychological background of the act of sabotage often
leads to the fact that a disgruntled employee threatens
boss or colleagues, for example, by e-mail. Sometimes
he even shares his thoughts with someone from
colleagues. In other words, not only the attacker knows
the information about the upcoming sabotage. Analysts
estimate that other people know 31% of information
about the plans of a saboteur. Of these, 64% are
colleagues, 21% with friends 14% — family members
and another 14% were accomplices. It was also
determined that 62% of corporate saboteurs think
through their actions beforehand. In 47% of cases, they
commit preparatory acts (e.g., theft of confidential data
backups). 27% — design and test of the future
mechanism of the attack (preparing a logic bomb on
the corporate network, additional hidden system
entries, etc). In 37% of cases the activity of employees
can be noted: of this amount, 67% of preparatory
actions visible online 11% offline and 22% both