Bringing "Neverland" Home | Caveon Test Security - Cheating ...
Written By: Christie Zervos, Director of Operations, Caveon Test Security
When I was a kid, I wanted to be Peter Pan. Yes, every kid says they want to be Peter Pan. But this is different: I really wanted to be Peter Pan. I watched the Disney movie probably once a week. I dressed up as Peter Pan for Halloween not twice, but three times. I even tried to fly off my 2nd story balcony (this I tried only once). But more than anything, I think, I wanted to save all those innocent children from the evil Captain Hook and the rest of those pesky, mangy pirates.
Decades later, looking back as an adult, I like to think that I have come to realize the romantic dreams of my childhood. No, I don?t talk to fairies or wear green tunics?and I still have yet to figured out how to fly?but I can call myself a real-life 21st century pirate-fighter. Modern pirates, of course, don?t tend to band together on large ships, sporting peg legs and parrots; they do their plundering within the privacy of their own homes, with the comfortable anonymity of cyberspace.
Of course, the piracy I?m referring to is online piracy; I am one of many web patrollers employed at Caveon Test Security, working to remove test fraud from the Internet.
While online pirates don?t always feel as menacing to us as the treacherous Captain Hooks of our children?s stories, the truth is the harm these pirates do is much more devastating as a whole. The problem of redistribution of confidential information through the Internet hits businesses the hardest, compromising institutional integrity and devaluing intellectual property, but it also looms over the entire nation, costing the U.S. economy $100 billion and thousands of jobs every year.
Since working for Caveon Test Security, I?ve been able to play a role in fighting online piracy and especially in detecting and preventing cases of cheating. As a Web Patrol expert, my job consists of isolating critical online information for our clientele and locating all instances of cheating or redistribution of confidential material. This process spans all spaces of the Internet, including confidential material sold on consumer-to-consumer platforms such as Craigslist or eBay, torrent websites such as The Pirate Bay and LimeWire and basic search engines such as Google or Yahoo. In the process, I have been surprised to find copious amounts of stolen information across all areas of the Internet and it has been so rewarding to play a role in restoring the integrity and profitability of our client?s testing programs.
Caveon also employs web patrollers with various backgrounds and language skills in order to detect piracy from all corners of the world. Our team patrols the web in English, Hindu, Tagalog, French, Korean and Mandarin Chinese.
While it is at times difficult, my work at Caveon has been some of the most fulfilling, knowing that, in a very direct way, I am helping companies succeed by removing very confidential information from the Internet that could undermine their very survival as an institution. In a way that I had never imagined as a six-year-old, I would do the work that I?ve always wanted to do: Fight pirates.
Fun clip below from the film Hook with Robin Williams circa 1991 ? Please leave comments!
Source: http://www.caveon.com/bringing-neverland-home/
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