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Short of strip searching employees every time they walk out the door, there’s probably nothing Boeing could have done to prevent the alleged data theft that has a former employee facing criminal charges, security expert Bruce Schneier says.
Gerald L. Eastman, 45, was accused this week of 16 felony counts of first-degree computer trespass for putting highly sensitive files onto a USB thumb drive and trying to leak them to newspaper reporters, the Seattle Times reported. Eastman allegedly stole documents that could cost Boeing $5 billion to $15 billion in potential damages if they fell into the wrong hands.
If a company hires an untrustworthy employee, there is almost nothing it can do to prevent theft, Schneier argues. “What’s done in African mines is they do full-body cavity strip searches every time they leave. That works,” Schneier says.
Implementing new data policies probably won’t prevent theft, he says. The only real solution is to hire trustworthy people, because companies simply have to rely on the people who have access to their data, he says.
“I’m not convinced [Boeing] did anything wrong … that any policy would have fixed it save strip searches,” he says.
Even that might not work, he notes. A strip search would turn up a USB drive, but an employee can easily e-mail classified documents to himself. “Since the beginning of time, your employees could steal your data,” Schneier says. “Modern technology makes it easier to take lots and lots of data … [but] in a sense it’s not a technology problem, it’s a human problem.”
Schneier says the alleged Boeing theft itself was not particularly egregious.
But these thefts are probably more common than people think, with most going undiscovered, says John Jefferies, vice president of marketing at RedCannon Security, which says its products can prevent such thefts.
“These flash drives are just so much easier to steal and nobody’s doing anything to manage or control them, encrypt the drives,” he says. “It’s just fortuitous that they caught this guy. I think Lockheed Martin probably has this problem too. That’s why I say it’s just the tip of the iceberg.”
Re: What was the subject of the documentsBy tuomoks on December 17, 2007, 7:31 pmRight on money. The company size of Boeing is already slowed down by necessary(?) byrocracy. And no security technology is bulletproof, when was last time you did...
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Thumb drives are too oftenBy Anonymous on December 17, 2007, 2:53 amThumb drives are too often the victims of convenience. Our corporate has use MyUSBOnly as an USB Port Security. So far so good. Peter Zyskowski
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DeviceLock better value than S-WaveBy Anonymous on July 23, 2007, 6:10 pmDeviceLock provides better access security, auditing, and shadowing of all Windows USB/removable media/wireless ports/devices for generally half the price of SecureWave...
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Yes, there is a lot more.By Anonymous on July 22, 2007, 4:32 amYes, there is a lot more. Go to http://thelastinspector.com and read about it. I did that and there is more to understand about it than the papers have reported....
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You could be right. JustBy Anonymous on July 22, 2007, 4:30 amYou could be right. Just think what a well trained foreign intelligence officer could do, especially on classified defense contracts this company continues to be...
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