More than one-third of IT staff are snooping on their
colleagues.
This was revealed in a poll of more than 400 senior IT
professionals in the US and Britain conducted by data security
company Cyber-Ark.
In the survey, 35 per cent of those polled admitted to abusing
administrative passwords to access confidential data such as
colleagues' salary details or board-meeting minutes.
Nearly three quarters said they could access information that
was not relevant to their role.
The most common areas accessed are Human Resources records,
followed by customer databases, merger and acquisition plans,
layoff lists and lastly, marketing information.
The survey also showed a sharp rise in those who plan to steal
information critical to maintaining competitive advantage and
corporate security, if fired.
Compared with a year ago, there's a six-fold increase in staff
who say they would take financial reports or merger and acquisition
plans, while there's a four-fold increase in those who would take
CEO passwords and research and development plans.
--938Live