Are you a snoop?? Have you been snooped upon?
Friday, June 20th, 2008
ONE IN THREE IT STAFF SNOOPS ON COLLEAGUES: One in three information technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues’ salary details, personal emails or board-meeting minutes. 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.
Cyber-Ark said privileged passwords get changed far less frequently than user passwords, with 30 percent being changed every quarter and 9 percent never changed at all, meaning that IT staff who have left an organization could still gain access.
Additionally, the survey found that seven out of 10 companies rely on outdated and insecure methods to exchange sensitive data, with 35 percent choosing email and 35 percent using couriers, while 4 percent still relied on the postal system.
Keep in mind, the results of the subject above is from an American firm. I know that in my office, we update our passwords religiously……as prompted by our ‘intranet’ system.
My question to you…..have you ever snooped in someone’s email??? At work? At home? I will admit it, I have done it in the past. At home. Was living with someone….I was suspicious of something….I was right. There was a whole lot of inappropriate going on. In retrospect, am I glad I did….yes, the relationship would’ve ended anyway, that just sped up the process…..
Feel free to share your thoughts…..or stories…..change the names to protect the innocent, you know, ‘I have this friend who did that’…we’re cool with that too:)
I’ll update my blog over the weekend with some codes. I’m home this weekend….finally…..after two away, so I feel like I owe you:)
Thanks for stopping by,
Sam