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Another laptop disappearance, more employee data missing!

 

One of the things that Knowledge Infusion works with its enterprise clients around is helping them understand the maturity of the On Demand and Software as a Service market. Organizations are continually concerned about their data being and that causing major employee issues. These issues get exacerbated when looking at global data because of data privacy issues.

 

 

This morning, news of another laptop being stolen from Administaff. Last week, The Gap - this week Administaff.

 

 

HR should be thinking about how its computers (locally) are being guarded since most organizations download data into Microsoft products with no security which makes data theft quite easy.

 

 

Keep this in mind if your organization downloads data of any kind from systems, whether on premise or off premise. The issue is probably not going to be the software vendor, but probably the people that manage your facilities and how laptops and desktops are secured.

 

 

Another infusion of knowledge...

 

 

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Tags: security


Oct 17, 2007 6:02 PM Click to view Jeremy Amos's profile Jeremy Amos

This sort of thing is also a big selling point for tighter integration between systems. I have seen several companies downloading data from SaaS services, ERP Systems, and Outsourcing partners.

 

Imagine this real scenario: A company processes their payroll, extracts files for check printing, taxes, and garnishments to their company laptop and then uploads those files to their outsourcing vendor for further processing. How nice would it be for a would-be thief to posses the social security numbers, banking info, and addresses of everyone in the company. Imagine if it leaked to the press...
Oct 17, 2007 7:01 PM Click to view Jason Averbook's profile Jason Averbook in response to: Jeremy Amos

I am sure this happens more than we hear about. This is exactly why we need HR to keep using more web services to integrate systems instead of batch files to interface systems. Great post and keep em coming

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