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The Enemy Within the Firewall

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sowing-dissent-and-distrust-in-the-workplace dept.

Mel Tom writes to tell us The Age is reporting that many businesses are now considering employees a much bigger threat to security than most external threats. From the article: "With email and instant messaging proving increasingly popular and devices such as laptop computers, mobile phones and USB storage devices more commonplace in the office, the opportunities for workplace crime are growing."

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  1. This Has Been Why... by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Informative

    This has been why email attachments are regularly stripped and IM is forbidden here. Still, we get stuff because people bring it in on CDs, infected PDA's in dock, etc.

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    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  2. Greed doesn't win by redelm · · Score: 4, Informative
    Look at game theory: betrayal and greed only work in the very short term. Co-operation works much better long term. Different people have different time horizons (discount rates), but the system has long memories. Getting longer with electronics.