Security Lessons Learned from Société Générale

  • Authors:
  • Jeremy Epstein

  • Affiliations:
  • Cyber Defense Agency

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The huge trading losses in 2007 and 2008 at Société Générale were caused by insider Jerome Kerviel's unauthorized actions. We can learn many lessons about the technological aspects of security from this insider attack, as well as some that we might hope to learn, but can't.