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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 10:25 am Post subject: PayPal's CISO'S Psychological Warfare |
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Security is a game of perceptions, especially when you're protecting against insider threats. "Eighty percent of the effect is in fact psychological," said Michael Barrett, chief information security officer at PayPal. Barrett was hired a year ago as the online payment services provider became an autonomous unit of eBay. "You tell people that you're monitoring even before you implement the technology."
With more than 5,000 employees, there's a lot of perception to manage, and with 143 million user accounts worldwide, there's a lot of data to protect. Barrett and his staff of 30 must keep tabs on what information employees are accessing and use audit controls to track what they do.
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