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A fascinating look at the evolution of the current insider threat to proprietary and classified information. The Insider explores how spies with authorized access to sensitive government and commercial information abused their trust and stole some of America's most sensitive national security and technological secrets. Reviews For Dan Verton's Work For The Insider: Best Practices: ".insightful vision into the growing challenge of insider threats and the potential adverse impact on the national and economic security of this nation." -- Bob Dix, former chief of staff, House Subcommittee on Technology Policy For Black Ice: "Dan Verton has 'connected the dots' like no one else can." - Howard Schmidt, former chief security officer, Microsoft Corp., and former White House cybersecurity advisor "The examples Verton unearths are certainly spooky... Genuine cyberterrorism will be as physical as a punch to the gut." -- The Washington Post About the Author Dan Verton is the author of the highly acclaimed book Black Ice: The Invisible Threat of Cyber-Terrorism (McGraw-Hill, 2003). Mr. Verton has presented a behind-the-scenes look at his research into the high-tech future of terrorism to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Congress, the Air Force War College, the U.S. Secret Service, the FBI, and colleges and universities around the country. His other works include Grace Under Fire (Outskirts Press, 2006), The Insider: A True Story (Llumina Press, 2005) and The Hacker Diaries: Confessions of Teenage Hackers, published in 2002 by McGraw-Hill.
A former intelligence officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, Verton is the first-place winner of the 2003 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for Best News Coverage for a series of reports on wireless network security threats at some of the nation's largest airlines and airports. E-mail a friend about this item. |
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