Annotated Bibliography: Insider Threats

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Commission, The Federal Trade. http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/topics/computer-security. 01 September 2011. Web. 05 11 2015.
The internet opens the door to a world of fun, entertainment, education and marketing. At the same time, it creates opportunities for scammers, hackers, and identity thieves. This website covers all of it and much more. The articles on this website play important role while creating a base for my final project. This web site provides learning modules how to protect computers, how to secure assets, and how to encrypt important data files.

Eddy, Nathan. "Insider Threats a Major Security Issue for Federal Agencies." eWeek (2015): 1. web.
The article focuses on increasing security threats as a major issue for Federal agencies. Topics covered in this article include views of Steve O'Keeffe, founder of MeriTalk. This article is valuable resource for my final project because it describes the reasons of increased computer attacks in agencies, why the employees need to be trained in computer security and why to implement threat programs to prevent risks associated with insider threat.
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Singer. Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Print.
This book provides deeply informative resources of crucial issues of 21st century life. The book is focused around the key question areas of cyberspace and its security: how it all works, why it all matters, and what can we do? This book is essential for my final project because it contains necessary facts, theories and life-applicable situations that have important meaning in computer security. It points out on the importance of cyber security and penetration testing, and it gives us closer view on the fights between ethical hackers and black