Insider Risk and Personnel Security

This textbook analyses the origins and effects of insider risk, using multiple real-life case histories to illustrate the principles, and explains how to protect organisations against the risk.

Autorentext

Paul Martin, CBE, is Professor of Practice at Coventry University's London-based Protective Security Lab, a Distinguished Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), an Honorary Principal Research Fellow at Imperial College London, a member of the UK Police Science Council, and an independent adviser to various UK government entities and private sector organisations. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge and was a Harkness Fellow at Stanford University. He is a practitioner with more than 30 years of experience in the UK national security arena.

Inhalt

Introduction PART ONE - UNDERSTANDING INSIDER RISK 1. What is insider risk? 2. Why does it matter? 3. Who are the insiders? 4. Why do they do it? 5. Trust, deception, and betrayal PART TWO - PERSONNEL SECURITY 6. Personnel security principles 7. Pre-trust measures 8. In-trust measures 9. Foundations 10. Models and metrics 11. Barriers to success