With the release of the film "Snowden," Phoenix-based security company BeyondTrust reviewed common security weaknesses organizations shared with the 2013 U.S. classified information breach, especially in the use of privileged credentials.
"Regardless of the film's historical accuracy, the fact is Snowden was an administrator, he was a trusted insider and he used various insider techniques to steal a ton of data," Morey Haber, vice president of technology, at BeyondTrust, said.
"No one monitored the administrator," Haber said. Snowden used demonstrated weaknesses in cybersecurity defense to hack his own workplace: leverage unmonitored privileged access to copy and exfiltrate sensitive information; and cause significant damage with the data.
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