Monitoring, Snooping, and Search
July 2, 2009
Every time I mention to an audience of information professionals the value of monitoring information flow, I see lots of rolling eyes and disgusted looks. Too bad. Snooping, monitoring, and search are fast friends. Don’t believe it? Click here and read “IT Staff Snooping on Colleagues on Rise: Survey”. Tarmo Virki summarized a number of data points. Among those that I found interesting was this factoid: One third of IT professionals abuse administrative passwords.The findings of the Cyber Ark study are almost identical to a study run in 2008. The passage that jumped out at me was:
Cyber-Ark said the most common areas respondents indicated they access are HR records, followed by customer databases, M&A plans, layoff lists and lastly, marketing information.
Troubled? Concerned? More information appeared in the original article. Accurate? A spoof?
Stephen Arnold, June 14, 2009
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