The Enemy Within

Trust no one. That’s what the “Smoking Man” warned Agent Moulder in the cult classic “X Files” TV series. We think the Smoking Man might have been onto something.

US-based SunTrust Bank said it is working with law enforcement after it discovered that a former employee had stolen private information belonging to nearly 1.5 million customers. While some personal details, such as SSN and driver’s license numbers weren’t compromised — names, addresses and account balances were. Either way, this highlights the importance of security measure to protect against intra-company and third-party vendor vulnerabilities. The insider threat is a big challenge because these are often our friends and the very people we trust with the keys to our corporate kingdoms.

Did we mention that we miss the original X Files?