Thursday, October 17, 2019

Massive Corporate Espionage Attack: 'One million pages stolen'

Australian blood giant CSL has been rocked by an alleged corporate espionage attack, with a former "high level" employee accused of stealing tens of thousands of its documents - including trade secrets - in order to land a job at a key competitor...
CSL’s allegations are expected to reverberate through the highly competitive global drug making industry where trade secrets are the most prized possession of the companies. more
It's never this obvious.

Any pharmaceutical company without: 
  • a robust Information Security Policy, 
  • Recording in the Workplace Policy
  • IT Compliance and Surveillance program, 
  • regularly scheduled Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) inspections (with an Information Security Survey component)
is an easy target. Sadly, they won't even know they have had their brains picked until the damage is done.

CSL had protection measures in place. Thus, this discovery, and recovery. ~Kevin