Information Security: Intellectual Property Theft Is Often the Result of Government Corruption
William Pallisgaard Olsen · 2012
Intellectual property is essentially all proprietary information that an organization may possess so long as the information is being protected. Proprietary information in the possession of others represents one of the largest single risks of loss of such information. Failure to take reasonable steps to protect the information when in the possession of others may cause the information to lose its trade secret status. Every organization that may receive such information in the normal course of business should be required to sign an agreement indicating that it recognizes that such information is confidential and that it shall be afforded the requisite protections. Each organization needs to develop a system whereby access to information is controlled and monitored. The ability to access, modify, download, print, or delete documents should be controlled on a system-wide basis.