Principles of Information Systems (MindTap Course List)
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Contractor being a serious threat to their organization’s information systems:
Contractor is a kind of employee who is related to the main part of the organization or project. In an organization, a contractor can be a service provider or hardware provider.
The reasons for considering a contractor as a serious threat to their organization’s
- The insider contract employees will be having a better understanding about the modules such as Id, password,
database , etc. Therefore, this information can be stolen by them for further use or someone else. - Insiders have a good knowledge in coding as well as in the operation of altering. That is the reason why the company uses limited access to the contractor employee for security reasons.
- To reveal the information, there are chances that the hacker or attacker may give bribe to a contract employee...
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