New research announced this week revealed that 88 percent of IT Administrators would have no problems stealing confidential information from their employer’s network if they were fired. And with these employees privy to all areas of the network, one can only imagine the kinds of data they could easily lay their hands on…
While the company that sponsored the research believes this is a good reason to change passwords on a regular basis, WatchYourEnd also strongly recommends organizations invest in technologies that can be used to stop the unauthorized copying of data from the network to portable storage devices such as USB sticks, MP3 players and even CDs or DVDs.
Of the 300 IT Administrators surveyed, only 12 percent claimed they wouldn’t dream of helping themselves to company data.
