Employee Selling Corporate Secrets In early 2018, an employee at a large media and entertainment company was caught selling extremely sensitive intellectual property to a third-party. This type of activity would be especially hard to detect using traditional tools such as threshold-based solutions that look for large or anomalous uploads. In this case the files were being sent infrequently, and when they were sent, the amount of data traversing the network was very small. In addition, this was a case where the perpetrator was authorized to access the information he was sharing. The files in question were sent to this person’s corporate email account from others within the organization. And the person did not forward or send all of the attachments contained in an any given email. T

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