Security News > 2022 > April > Welcome to the Age of Zero Trust

Companies are struggling to retain employees and hire new ones as workers seek new opportunities elsewhere.

Ransomware thieves have been caught approaching employees to help infect their employer's systems, while some workers take it upon themselves to pilfer company data.

Companies often fail to close the circle by shutting down employees' accounts quickly after their departure.

The employer's firewall would have blocked a direct connection to the external destination, so the employee connected their personal device to the company's network and established a rogue RDP session.

Antigena spotted the file downloads, which were unusually large for that employee, and blocked the subsequent upload. When the employee switched to a VPN connection to bypass the cloud service, the Darktrace tool blocked that too.

How many movie scenes have shown an employee immediately escorted from the building, box of belongings in hand, as soon as a manager has let them go? They think they've stopped the employee stealing valuable information, but they often forget about a disgruntled worker's access to online resources.

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