Tag Archive for 'confidential information'

4 in 10 companies have full-time email monitoring staff

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Anca Suciu
on August 18, 2009
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employee stealing According to Proffpoint Inc. data security research, more and more companies are increasingly concerned about a growing number of data leaks. This pushes organizations to embrace more drastic preventive measures. Last year survey revealed that 29% of companies hired staff only to monitor outgoing email of colleagues. Now, the number of companies that employ staff whose primary or exclusive job is to monitor the content of outbound email has increased to 38%.

“Draconian measures” some might say, but, if we take a closer look at the reasons they choose to adopt this strategy, we might understand their concern. By investigating the exposure of confidential, sensitive or private information via email, blogs, multimedia channels and social networks, the end result was generally very bad news. Continue reading ‘4 in 10 companies have full-time email monitoring staff’

How to prevent data breach in your company

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Anca Suciu
on June 3, 2009
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ConfidentialConsidering the continuously evolution of technology, businesses are now able to track lots of information about customers, prospects, employees, competitors etc. But, as every good thing is most probably followed by a bad (or at least less good) thing, along with those data gathering capabilities the concern for privacy, safety and security has also increased.

Now, there are a set of questions that rise up in a manager’s mind: What kinds of information does your business gather and use? Who has access to these data? What might it be used for? These are normal questions that have to be answered by every manager interested in having a healthy and stable business by preventing confidential information from leaving the company. When consumers, employees or partners give you personal information they must be assured that you will use it accurately and responsibly. And beyond that, you must also comply with a wide range of privacy protection rules and regulations. Continue reading ‘How to prevent data breach in your company’