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Batten down the IT hatches when employees quit
Most organizations have procedures in place to smooth the process of ushering soon-to-be ex-employees out the door. While these procedures are important, they aren't enough to protect IT resources.
A case for 'least privilege' solutions to the insider threat
For years now it's been widely understood that the greatest threat to information security comes from inside the corporation. You have to constantly be on the lookout for all the usual suspects:
Another IT staffer pleads guilty to hacking into ex-employer
An IT administrator has pleaded guilty to computer intrusion charges in the District Court for the Western District of Texas. Fired from his job at McLane Advanced Technologies, a Defense Department
Fired Ga. man crashes ex-employer's VMware systems
Here's a cautionary tale about the importance of revoking network passwords after letting IT workers go: The U.S. subsidiary of Japanese pharmaceutical firm Shionogi lost 15 VMware host systems
Report: Data theft concerns rise
IT leaders are worried that the economic downturn may prompt some laid-off and disgruntled employees to resort to data theft. A McAfee-sponsored worldwide survey of 1,000 IT decision makers found
Data security's worst year yet
A report released by the security tracking Identity Theft Resource Center said there were 646 data breach incidents reported in 2008, a 47 percent increase over 2007 and an all-time record. The spike
Disgruntled workers may attack security
These are tough economic times and many workers, including those in the IT field, are being handed pink slips. As a result, security analysts are advising companies to protect their data and networks
