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Answer» Read the Story How is this news?Quote from: BC_Programmer on November 07, 2011, 04:07:10 PM How is this news?How is it not news?Quote from: Geek-9pm on November 07, 2011, 04:39:27 PM How is it not news? Because "news" is generally not stating the obvious. This has been an "issue" since the advent of computers. Employees could easily transfer records to a tape drive or to a floppy disk, or to a Flash Drive long before now. The fact that they are posting this as a "news" article is downright ridiculous. They may as well say "This just in: Disks can store data!". First off, this has nothing to do with "trust" of employees. It has to do with management of RESOURCES being ridiculous. Why was that data ever transferred to a USB thumb drive to BEGIN with? Why were the office computers even able to interface and use a external USB drive? These are BASIC precautions that any administrator should be implementing in any office environment that contains sensitive information. Trying to delegate that problem as an issue of "trust of employees" is sidestepping the REAL issue that the company is managed by a bunch of idiots who would rather spend their time blaming each other and their employees for what is fundamentally a problem with the way they run things. Why? physical data theft if this manner (or copying, etc) is hard to trace. this sort of environment should have a Domain policy that restricts and prevents the use of External hard drives, and the systems should not have a floppy drive installed. The workstations should also be "locked down" and of course their network activities should be MONITORED (or tracked). Who copies what file from what network drive when, for example. This way the employee responsible for such data loss/breaches can be held as such; there is no "I didn't know" or "I lost it" because there is no physical device to lose or not know what it contains. And there is a clear electronic trail of what they did that paints their intentions, so the whole innocent employee tactic wouldn't work.BC, I think you would make a great lawyer. Lolz.Quote from: Linux711 on November 07, 2011, 06:21:44 PM BC, I think you would make a great lawyer. Lolz. Please don't give him any ideas. (I agree 110 % ).... Quote from: Linux711 on November 07, 2011, 06:21:44 PM BC, I think you would make a great lawyer. Lolz.Objection!Quote from: BC_Programmer on November 07, 2011, 08:29:57 PM Objection!Quote from: BC_Programmer on November 07, 2011, 08:29:57 PM Objection! Sustained. |
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