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Nine Ways to Stop Industrial Espionage
An anonymous reader writes "IT staff are in the unique position that if they are nosy, immoral, greedy or corrupt that can get at what they want within their company at the touch of a button. The corporate crown jewels are usually left open and exposed to the IT guys. So how do you protect your corporate crown jewels from staff that can so easily be bribed to steal them and hand them over to a competitor?" I can't imagine having to be paranoid about employees. That seems to me to be a bigger problem than hardware.
Select good people, pay them well and treat them fairly.
uoi OBVOIUSALLY do not have a MBA or other advanced Business degree as that above statement flies in the face of Everything tought to you at the best Business schools.
Next thing you are going to start preaching heresy that experience is more valuable than certifications, bringing the IT department food on a regular basis improves the work attitude and the bigest heresy.... If you treat them like human beings they will actually stick around of be happier at work.
The sad part is that the above bit of fiction seems to be the operation standard across the country in corperations. IT is understaffed and underpaid in contrast to their duties and responsibilities. Yet the morons in the executive floor can not understand why when a "valued" employee can not afford to live anywher but the slums because he is only getting 1/2 of what he needs to live where he works, he jumps ship without warning (giving warning = getting your walking papers right there).
Also, the Executives are also dumbfounded why IT get's all pissed off during a hiring freeze when they hire 3 new assistants for the Marketing and sales departments yet are told that another IT person is not in the budget, try again next year. (marketing assistant makes MORE than the IT guys do)
No this is not some podunk company, it's comcast. I left the place because the managers and executives are idiots, complete blathering idiots.
Answer? American Corperations are lead by the stupidest and dumbest people on the planet. THAT is why employees get pissed and take off with a DLT of everything they can get their hands on, or a portable drive they brought in a week before they quit to copy all databases they can get their fingers into. They can go to the competition and get wages they deserve and ride like a king doling out insider info for the next 3 years.
Only answer is to either get rid of the idiots (unlikely as money breeds stupidity) or let it all sort it's self out in the end.
Explain to me what is difficult about a managerial position, then? I can't see it. It's a lot of work, do not get me wrong, but there's a lot more people who will survive a business degree who couldn't survive a comp sci degree. Flip it around and you do not see the same thing. There's no way I could do their jobs? Pfft. Riiight. Buddy, there's no way they could do *my* job, not the other way around.
Why is it that people who make the most accusations of fallacious statements are often most proned to making fallacious statements themselves.
The fact is, you're an idiot.
Finder of the any key.