Mostly Security Snippets from Tom Olzak
Just trying to make it through the morass of information security issues slamming the Net every day. Helping others to do the same.
Fired workers are not your friends…
The results of a new Ponemon Institute survey shows fired employess steal data on the way out the door… big surprise.
A survey of 945 individuals who were laid off, fired or quit their jobs in the past 12 months shows that 59% admitted to stealing company data and 67% used their former company’s confidential information to leverage a new job.
That’s according to the “Jobs at Risk = Data at Risk” survey published Monday by Ponemon Institute. The research firm found that 61% of respondents who felt negatively about the company took data while only 26% of those with a favorable view did. Only 31% of those surveyed said they had “trust” in their former employer to “act with integrity and fairness,” 25% were “unsure” and 44% did not have trust.
Source: Most fired workers steal data on way out the door, survey shows, Ellen Messmer, Computerworld, 23 February 2009
