Survey: One In Three IT Staff Snoops

Only one in three? I would hazard that is being conservative.

From MSNBC:

One in three information technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues’ salary details, personal e-mails or board-meeting minutes, according to a survey.

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.

Ah, there it is. One-third admitted to it. OK, that is more what I would expect. Now for the other two thirds get the electric cattle prod and some thumb screws and I’m sure they’ll start singing.

hyuk.

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Posted by Dave Lewis on June 20, 2008. Filed under Access Control,Insider Threat. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.