TOP TIPS: Protecting trade secrets

Despite ominous warnings about the menace of Chinese hacking, the most prevalent threat to a company’s trade secrets is the corporate insider. Samuel Olsen of Kroll Advisory Services explains how financial exes can mitigate this risk.

By I-Ching Ng

Apr 8, 2013

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Where corporates expose their trade secrets:
The 2012/13 Kroll Fraud Report shows that 67% of all fraud cases are committed by company insiders, up from 60% last year and 55% in 2010. Internal fraudsters tend either to act alone or co-operate with peers. They are generally junior employees, senior managers or agents of the company. Often they are just opportunists or disgruntled employees.

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