The company has been out on a daily basis a variety of external stakeholders

The company has been out on a daily basis a variety of external stakeholders. Business partners and guards and cleaning staff, "employees who are not officials, but" There. In this series, we discussed the risk of a malicious person before. Addressed this point introduces the management perspective.

Medium-sized enterprises in a certain incident occurred a few years ago. The company's security guard (Mr. A) is always in contact with the opponent with a smile, "an elderly uncle friendly" could give the impression that people like. There seems to be popular among female employees. But in the boardroom of the company had been secretly discussed the incident with.

CIO (Information Officer) of a rival company had obtained the private part of our patent information or true!

Director of Engineering took the check. No doubt that our information is correct. Get the route is not known, it is retroactive to the last year researching the access status of confidential information in the database of patent information, the results should be known soon.

Then, the manager admitted that first sweaty, whilst having the technology and spoke as follows.

We found traces of suspicious access past four years the first chief. A copy of the information was around 1:00 on Thursday either!

I noticed now because of technical director. Do not be funny!

Reprimand the chief and the first technical director with rough voices,

The first manager that I can not. The resolution of the board two years ago, the CIO "regular log analysis so far had been negative image which is undesirable. Moreover, direct costing more than 30 million yen for the year that. The cost savings that can stop a well log analysis, to eliminate (only partly because logging had continued instruction from the authorities) "was decided on and you do not ....

CIO ... .... (Silence)

Forensic investigation was carried out on the PC and then copy the files had been, was the chief organizer of the security company in charge of the guards found the evidence I can only imagine that Mr. A that is involved. Why does Mr. A really looked like a good person always smiling - 傾Gezaru officials were forced to fire a uniform.

However, there are a variety of circumstantial evidence.


1. Is done four times with the crime Thursday night, night duty that day were either A's
2. Around 1:00 am the time is equivalent to the time the crime guard patrol
3. Patrol the two people usually in non-market tour is in response to incidents such as the turmoil Voyages nearby toilets and one person one only four times this was a patrol is one of the other was only

Looking accumulating evidence, that doubt was involved in Mr. A is not. So secretly contacted the company and the security company, was A's PC forensic investigation on the agreement of both companies. Then, the file has been identified that may have copies. Later, Mr. A has considerable debt, it became apparent that had ballooned up to 20 million yen.

Some U.S. companies have adopted more than one security company, but to prevent crime and make the check to each other, so the companies are rare in Japan. Looking at the security point of view, and that only one security company, if the fraud after the company is "bottomless swamp" could and could lead to the state.

● The result of cost-cutting

For any company, reducing expenses is a very big challenge. The companies that are most subject to reduction to "clean house" will. What previously had been gradually decreasing every day, in recent cases that stand out now once a week. For one week, which is typically held on Saturday in terms of efficiency. If so, almost no in-house employees. If a malicious person in a sanitation worker, what happens. Various evil sister could result, many companies have stolen blueprints and patent information, etc. intact.

Is a necessary cost-cutting efforts, as a manager is on the correct understanding of security risks, I would like to reconsider whether the current situation is really good. Here's the point.

(1) of the security company employed rather than one case is too early now. Causes considerable costs. The one company that is unavoidable in terms of cost, you should be able to structure the crime as a security guard 及Bou malicious. Make sure to check the security system, including the offer stage.

(2) to change the orientation of the cameras running and shooting, so you can record from various angles.