Nearly half of professionals admit to swiping data when changing jobs
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007Lax security and portable media lets data walk out the door
Forty-five percent of professionals have taken corporate data with them when they changed jobs, according to a recent online survey, with many of them simply e-mailing it to themselves or storing it on a peripheral device. Forty-two percent said that corporate security measures were ineffectual. Perhaps not surprisingly, 53 percent on average were also of the opinion that their employer’s intellectual property was being used by a competitor. The number who felt that way rose to 63 percent for IT professionals.
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