If you can't trust the compliance officer, whom can you trust?

The insider threat is the main security risk enterprises face -- insider incidents from using system administrator or privileged account access are responsible for nine out of 10 breaches in data security.

I often wonder if I'll get to an age where I'm not disillusioned by the world around me. After having thought I'd seen it all, I just found out that compliance officers cannot be trusted!

I've been advising supposedly concerned compliance officers for years about the risks posed by questionable members of their IT staff, and then I walk into a company recently to discover they've just fired their compliance officer.

It was a minor indiscretion. He had simply accessed every contract the company held to ensure that it was complying with all relevant policies. Trouble is, he was being handsomely rewarded by the competition for divulging what he found.

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