Sunday 22 March 2009

Sensitive corporate data are walking right out the door with disgruntled former employees

More and more surveys are saying that ex-employees think it is fair game to steal your business information. 

Make sure you have solid procedures and policy's in place to minimise the threat of someone walking out the door with your data.

More than half of workers who lost or left a job in 2008 said they stole confidential company data, according to a recent survey by Symantec, a data security firm, and the Poneman Institute, which polled nearly 1,000 adults who lost their job last year. Records taken include e-mail lists, employee records and customer contact information. more...

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