What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

George, a corporate investigator with years of experience and a very good record of solid investigative skills, was asked to join a newly formed network security group within Spacely Sprockets. They realized that they had a large amount of their intellectual property stored on networked computers, and they wanted, or rather needed, to take steps to ensure that it was being protected against hacker attacks. Their intellectual property ranged from marketing plans and potential contract bidding on the business side, to software and patented ideas on the technological side. George accepted the transfer, intrigued by the potential challenges.

And challenges he quickly got—like the day where he received a complaint that ...

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