1 In 3 Sysadmins Snoop On Colleagues

klubar writes "According to a a recent survey, one in three IT staff snoops on colleagues. U.S. information security company Cyber-Ark surveyed 300 senior IT professionals, and found that one-third admitted to secretly snooping, while 47 percent said they had accessed information that was not relevant to their role. Makes you wonder about the other 2 out of 3. Did they lie on the survey or really don't snoop?"

Comments

They have a life

[Mikkeles]

'Makes you wonder about the other 2 out of 3. Did they lie on the survey or really don't snoop?'

They probably have a life. It's pretty pathetic to have to get one's jollies snooping on others rather than actually doing something.

Makes you wonder......?

[Jailbrekr]

According to that survey, 2 out of 3 sysadmins realize that spying in a CLI (career limiting move) if they get caught. That, and the whole ethics and honour thing, are why we are able to manage the confidential data without snooping.

Re:Scary

[prockcore]

They don't have access to the private keys of every server. Their public key is in their home directory on every server.

You just delete their account, or their authorized_keys file.

Re:No Ethics

[afidel]

THIS! These people are obviously not busy enough, I have a multi-year backlog of backend projects let alone the stuff that the business adds on a quarterly basis.