How to prevent the leak of important information from the company

Information leakage is one of the organization’s most painful issues. In addition to losing money, an organization can lose its image, and this is a blow to the economy of the company. In addition, the disclosure of production technologies to competitors may nullify the company's attempts to take a more advantageous position in the sales market.

Negative Information Leak Factors

The negative consequences in connection with the leakage of information can be qualified as follows: non-receipt of benefits from the damaged image of the enterprise; penalties from regulators; compensation in case of litigation; reduction in the value of stocks when classified information from insiders appears on the market; lost tenders; loss of investment in the development of new technologies.

Types of Information Leakage

There are two types of leakage of proprietary information of an enterprise: external and internal. Considering these two types, we can conclude that internal leakage is much more dangerous than external. To prevent external leakage, many special protection programs have been developed to date. These are all kinds of antivirus programs and firewalls. And the internal threat comes from employees who work directly in the organization and have access to classified information.

People selling classified information are called insiders. The damage caused by insiders is much greater than from an external hacker.