ABSTRACT
While police services and businesses across the country spend large amounts of money on protecting their computer networks from the external world, it is contended that the insider presents the greatest threat to police systems. The threat from external sources is well documented and catered for by IT departments designing secure systems, constantly monitoring perimeter security and updating firewalls and anti-malware products. These measures do an efficient job in protecting the networks, to the extent that there are very few known incidents of data loss from hacking UK policing systems.
