CHARLOTTE, NC — The Sony hack has a lot of people wondering what the companies they work for are doing to protect their personal information.
The hackers apparently stole the computer credentials from one of Sony’s top-level systems administrators. Movies have been leaked, along with internal documents exposing private company memos. The hackers also got employee salaries, social security numbers and health information.
Charlotte’s Theresa Payton is a cyber security expert. She says catching cyber threats is a company-wide effort. “You want to make sure you’ve got an active insider threat program,” she said. “So that way, if employees do see something that concerns them on the network, or they may suspect an employee or contractor of doing the company harm, they have a confidential and easy way to report that.”
Companies are also urged to keep track of what access each employee has to personal information. That way, individual threats can be isolated and kept under control.
