Towards development of a trust grid to balance between organization´s interests and employee´s privacy

To avoid financial and other losses that occur because of insider threat an agent based profiling model was developed. When profile of the trusted user becomes mature it is analyzed and verified against organization´s policy. The users are marked as suspicious if their activities are against the policies of the organizations. This paper discusses the privacy and ethical issues of the proposed model, ACENET, when it is deployed in the organization to monitor an employee´s activities. The paper also addresses misconception regarding security and privacy. The conventions regarding privacy policy of some standard bodies have also been referred. The tentative issues and the conflict between employer and employee that rises because of their interests have also been addressed and solution in form of Trust - Grid has been proposed. Finally, it has been concluded that in the light of provided guidelines, policy-making is the foundation to resolve all kind of probable conflicts.