Intellectual property (IP) covers a wide variety of corporate capital, including customer information, business plans, trade secrets, creative work products such as scripts, software or hardware. Hackers, corporate competitors and nation states are all potential IP thieves. Forrester Research admitted that it was the victim of a cyberattack earlier this year, while no confidential client data was stolen. About 65% of employees commit insider IP theft had already accepted positions with a competing company or started their own company at the time of the theft.”]
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