Former employees may still have access to network

A former employee at Shionogi pharmaceutical company logged into the company\'s network from a wi-fi hotspot at a McDonalds and deleted the contents of 88 diffe...

Agencies are doing more to protect themselves from insider threats, so they don’t wind up like the pharmaceutical company Shionogi.

A former employee there logged into the company’s network from a wi-fi hotspot at a McDonalds and deleted the contents of 88 different computer servers.

HealthCareInfoSecurity.com reports, Cornish plead guilty to the charges of computer intrusion and faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

IT experts say your agency needs to change passwords and reset access rights whenever a staff member leaves — even if they leave on good terms.

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