Do You Trust Your Employees?

Best practices for preventing and discovering these types of fraud include next- generation firewalls to break the SSL (secure sockets layer) connection in the middle and inspect the data for keywords (such as ‘confidential’) within documents.

“These next generation firewalls are application-based instead of port-based, which means they are much more discerning about what they block and allow through. Uniform resource locator (URL) filtering is also important to protect users from going to malicious sites by mistake. Many phishing attacks trick employees into clicking a link for a site that installs malware on the employee’s computer—so that computer can be remotely monitored by an outside entity,” Salustro notes.

Additionally, “there are some solutions that control whether USB ports and CD burners can be used. They should be blocked by default,” he adds.