Risk Of Insider Threats In Information Technology Outsourcing: Can Deceptive Techniques Be Applied?
- Topics:
- Outsourced Services
- Tags:
- Business Operations,
- Technique,
- Strategy,
- Security,
- Outsourcing & Subcontracting,
- Outsourcing,
- Management,
- It Operations,
- Insider Threat,
- Information Technology,
- ...
- Source:
- University of Mauritius
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Overview: The risks involved in Information Technology Outsourcing has since long been known to affect business decisions of whether to outsource or not. This has lead to numerous research on topics such as: Understanding and Managing Outsourcing Risks, Methodologies to measure Outsourcing Risks, Risk Factors in Information Technology Outsourcing, Assessing the Risk of IT Outsourcing to name a few. But very little research has been conducted on the security aspect of Information Technology Outsourcing. This paper tries to bring the light on security risks in IT Outsourcing, more specifically risk of insider threats. It also tries to bring attention on the fact that security risks can be a lot more damaging and harmful than any other non security threats combined together.
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Format: PDF | Size: 215KB | Date: Jun 2006 | Pages: 8
