Exposed from within – we look to Twitter’s recent whistleblower experience to gain insight to the modern risks facing companies in the new social media age – noting evolving IT infrastructure, increased employee access to data as well as international bounty incentives for whistleblowers.
With the high-profile Twitter whistleblower claims presently dominating social media we are reminded of the importance of internal stakeholder management when it comes to ensuring businesses don’t subject themselves to cyber vulnerability risk. With employees and/or other stakeholders having access to significant sensitive data, the warnings are clear – organisations should be ensuring they have appropriate cyber security and data management in place, taking into account the type and volume of personal information (and proprietary information) they process and the means by which they process it. In addition to having to publicly report certain data breaches, suffering complaints and regulators own motion investigations, the risk (and impact) of internal whistleblowers should never be underestimated.
Australian businesses should be mindful of the recent increasing interest of Australian…
