Chapter 3. Developing Your Information Security Program

A multibillion-dollar international company found that the email of an executive based in Germany was being regularly disclosed outside the company in an unauthorized manner. The investigation was complicated. The company's corporate headquarters was in the United States, so the investigation was based there because of the extremely sensitive nature of the incident. However, the executive in question was a German citizen, the mail server used by European-based executives was in France, and the breach appeared to originate at a Dutch facility.

Who had jurisdiction? Local law enforcement in the state of California, where the company was headquartered? Federal law enforcement in the United ...

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