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Any time we have a case involving suspected misconduct by IT personnel, we call it a special case. It is rather challenging to investigate a member of the IT team convertly. We had to think out-of-the-box as to how we would accomplish our task. We eventually came up with a plan we felt would work. The CSO was a retired FBI agent and still had ties to the bureau. We told him that it would not be unusual for him to get a call warning him about the potential compromise of their network or the laptops of the executive staff [who had traveled overseas recently]. We would pretend to be private contractors working for a certain government agency investigating an undisclosed cyber threat. Because of who we were supposed to be and what they ...