Dan Verton's The Insider: A True Story Featured on National Public Radio (NPR) and Network Computing's Security Podcast

Dan Verton's The Insider: A True Story Featured on National Public Radio (NPR) and Network Computing's Security Podcast

Author Dan Verton Discusses His New Book and the Risks Insider Threats Pose to the Security of Corporate America on Two Radio Shows

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sep. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Dan Verton, author and award-winning journalist, was recently featured on National Public Radio (NPR) and Network Computing's security Podcast to discuss his latest book, The Insider: A True Story. The book, published by Llumina Press, provides deep insight into the threats that trusted employees can pose to the security of personal and corporate data, and the damage that can be caused when these threats are ignored. You can tune into these interviews by logging onto: http://www.wamu.org/audio/kn/05/08/k1050809-8119.ram (NPR) and http://i.cmpnet.com/networkcomputing/blogs/podcasts/NWC_Security_Podcast_18.mp 3 (Network Computing)

"Contrary to what many believe, the security perimeter is dead because proprietary information is leaking from the inside out," says Verton. "While some incidents are the result of insiders motivated by financial gain or revenge, my research found that the data breaches taking place in today's corporations are not always malicious. Even the most trusted employees can accidentally leak sensitive and confidential data over the network through Webmail, IM, SMTP email, peer-to-peer file sharing, and more."

The Insider: A True Story was based largely on research and hard data collected from Reconnex Corporation, whose enterprise risk management technology is used to perform 48-Hour e-Risk Rapid Assessments that provide a complete view of enterprise risk by monitoring all traffic flowing over a corporate network, regardless of file type or communication channel. In Reconnex's recent studies, these assessments confirmed that corporate (SMTP- based) email accounts for less than 10 percent of network traffic, with most communications taking place via Web-based protocols such as Webmail and Instant Messaging.

Upcoming Speaking Engagements:

Verton will be speaking at the Internet Security Systems' Summer Seminar Series "Best Practices for Safeguarding Customer Data" panel on November 9th in Chicago, Illinois and November 10th in Long Beach, California.

Available as a Resource:

Verton is available for comment as a resource on the topics of network security, the insider threat, data protection, national cyber security, defense, and intelligence issues. To contact Verton, please call Robb Henshaw at Engage PR at 510-748-8200 ext. 217 or on his mobile at 510-846-5939.

About Dan Verton

In addition to The Insider: A True Story, Dan Verton wrote the highly acclaimed book Black Ice: The Invisible Threat of Cyber-Terrorism (McGraw-Hill, 2003), endorsed by some of the nation's top experts as one of the best descriptions of the terrorist threat to critical cyber infrastructure to date. He has presented his research on cyber-terrorism to the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Secret Service, The Air Force War College, and to other organizations as well as to colleges and universities. Verton is former Marine Corps intelligence officer.

About Reconnex

Reconnex is the leading provider of enterprise risk management (ERM) systems that reveal and address the insider threat to compliance risks, competitive risks, corporate governance risks and critical infrastructure risks. Reconnex enables Fortune 1000 companies, government organizations, and smaller healthcare and financial services companies to protect their brands, shareholder value and mission critical operations by revealing hidden risks in the first 48 hours of deployment. Without exception, every deployment has enabled these organizations to quickly remediate the risks that could have damaged or destroyed their organization.

Give us two days, you'll know(TM). Call Reconnex today at 1-866-940-4590 or visit us on the web at www.reconnex.net.

CONTACT: Robb Henshaw of Engage PR, +1-510-748-8200, ext. 217, or rhenshaw@engagepr.com, for Reconnex.

Source: Reconnex

CONTACT: Robb Henshaw of Engage PR, +1-510-748-8200, ext. 217, or rhenshaw@engagepr.com, for Reconnex

Web site: http://www.reconnex.net/

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