...In most cases, the CEO and probably a huge number of people in upper management can do any number of things to nuke a company from orbit. But this doesn't ha

...In most cases, the CEO and probably a huge number of people in upper management can do any number of things to nuke a company from orbit. But this doesn't happen very often. The things that those people can do to nuke a company from orbit are typically tightly controlled functions, and the people with those responsibilities are carefully selected and extremely well-compensated. Yes, some employees need to be absolutely trusted. No, you don't need to absolutely trust every employee (or even most employees). Turning to your Snowden example, if you're a TLA and find yourself completely owned by an outside contractor making low six fiures, then you've utterly failed and managing insider risk.