SALAMI THEFT-MAJOR THREAT TO INFORMATION SECURITY

Lalitha Venkatesan.A

Abstract: Information is a valuable asset to any organization or person in specific. This information should be well maintained (free from danger).When ordinary information is so important, imagine how important the sensitive information is. The information security is called as well-informed sense of assurance that the information risks and controls are in balance. Till now there have been many research were carried out to overcome salami theft, but all of them seems to be very impractical. Salami theft also called as Penny Shaving which happens when an employee or any person steals a few pieces of information at a time, knowing that taking more would be noticed, but eventually the employee gets something complete or usable one which can also be called as NNT(Not Noticed Theft)or (Very Critical When Found Theft (VCWFT)).These type of thefts can be overcome by imposing the concept of ethical hacking on to salami theft to detect and also correct the theft of SInfo (Sensitive Information) at a very earlier stage itself

Keywords: salami theft, Sensitive information (SInfo), information risk, ethical hacking.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0418012