Abstract :
The huge trading losses in 2007 and 2008 at Societe Generale were caused by insider Jerome Kerviel´s unauthorized actions. We can learn many lessons about the technological aspects of security from this insider attack, as well as some that we might hope to learn, but can´t.
Keywords :
security of data; Societe Generale; security lessons; technological aspects; Authentication; Biometrics; Books; Computer crime; Computer security; Control systems; Information security; Intrusion detection; Knowledge management; Smart cards; Building Security In; Jerome Kerviel; Société Générale; financial fraud; insider threat; security lessons learned;