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Last week, a contract worker at a Oak Ridge National Lab was caught trying to sell nuclear secrets. Apparently he needed some extra money and thought that by stealing these secrets and selling them to a foreign government would allow him to pay off his debts.

This is a serious breath of security, and given that the low level contract worker was allowed to access this information and steal it is amazing. Fortunately, he was caught by an under cover agent acting as a potential buyer of these nuclear secrets. There’s no doubt that Oak Ridge has a policy to prevent this sort of security breach, but the procedure to follow it was not executed.

If these secrets would have been sold to a foreign government, the consequences would have been very damaging. There’s never enough security to protect proprietary information and it’s important to not only have a policy, but to also be very diligent in the procedure to protect that sort of information.

Many business owners don’t think something could happen like this at their business. However, if it happened at a high security nuclear facility, what would stop it from happening to your business?