A Preliminary Model of Insider Theft of Intellectual Property

Abstract

A study conducted by the CERT Program at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute analyzed hundreds of insider cyber crimes across U.S. critical infrastructure sectors. Follow-up work involved detailed group modeling and analysis of 48 cases of insider theft of intellectual property. In the context of this paper, insider theft of intellectual property includes incidents in which the insider's primary goal is stealing confidential or proprietary information from the organization. This paper describes general observations about and a preliminary system dynamics model of this class of insider crime based on our empirical data. This work generates empirically-based hypotheses for validation and a basis for identifying mitigating measures in future work.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA540507

Entities

People

  • Andrew P. Moore
  • Dawn M. Capelli
  • Derrick Spooner
  • Eric Shaw
  • Randall F. Trzeciak
  • Thomas C. Caron

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Cybersecurity
  • Employment
  • Engineering
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • Insider Threats
  • Intellectual Property
  • Military Research
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Software Development
  • Training

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Cybersecurity.
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber