In the field of IT technologies and information security, there are occasional reports that third parties have gained access to some secret data.
Who is the culprit of such incidents? - It could be:
An insider who accidentally obtained valuable data. For example, an employee no longer works for the company, but before leaving, he had access to classified information as part of his job responsibilities. And a person could download some confidential information to his computer simply in a hurry, out of carelessness. In principle, such a leak in itself is not dangerous for business, because no one planned to leak the obtained data to a third party for profit, revenge, or other reasons.
However, we must ensure that nothing like this can happen even through carelessness. Viral activity is now reaching such proportions that attackers, if they wish, will find a way to get to information that has left the company.
An insider who has planned organize your finances with mint malicious intent. This usually refers to employees who left the company with a grudge. Such a person may deliberately plan information sabotage in order to damage the company's reputation or cause it financial damage. He obtains information using his personal access level or through friendly colleagues. And the data obtained can then be used, for example, as a blackmail tool (promise to share it with competing companies or make it public, etc.).
Third-party attacker. That is, someone who is not connected to the company in any way, but plans to get hold of its confidential information. For example, a hacker (for profit), or a smart teenager (trying his hand at IT, hacking other people's databases), etc.
Business information security risks
If a company's information systems have sufficiently serious vulnerabilities, then the likelihood of a corporate data leak naturally increases.
The reason may be, for example, insufficiently reliable software and hardware-software bases, weak codes that are easily overcome by violators (and gain access to secret information). Of course, security updates and patches are released quite often, manufacturers monitor this, caring about the security of their clients' businesses. And yet it happens that hackers manage to learn about a vulnerability before software developers and quickly make a corresponding exploit.