• DocumentCode
    1233116
  • Title

    Security Lessons Learned from Société Générale

  • Author

    Epstein, Jeremy

  • Author_Institution
    Cyber Defense Agency
  • Volume
    6
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    80
  • Lastpage
    82
  • Abstract
    The huge trading losses in 2007 and 2008 at Societe Generale were caused by insider Jerome Kerviel´s unauthorized actions. We can learn many lessons about the technological aspects of security from this insider attack, as well as some that we might hope to learn, but can´t.
  • Keywords
    security of data; Societe Generale; security lessons; technological aspects; Authentication; Biometrics; Books; Computer crime; Computer security; Control systems; Information security; Intrusion detection; Knowledge management; Smart cards; Building Security In; Jerome Kerviel; Société Générale; financial fraud; insider threat; security lessons learned;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Security & Privacy, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1540-7993
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSP.2008.71
  • Filename
    4530408