Here’s an interesting article we stumbled into. It focuses on five reasons why you should monitor what your employees do on company computers. A couple of the five can be seen below:

Changes in the business, technology and security landscape have brought about a hitherto neglected issue on employee communications to a head, according to Chronicle Solutions. In many ways, digital communication is out of control in most organisations.

Chronicle Solutions argues that there are five key reasons why now is the time to take employee monitoring seriously:
1. The risks from the internal security threat are growing and are likely to continue to grow for the foreseeable future. Organisations simply cannot afford to ignore the serious and growing threats from identity theft, fraud and illegal information brokering.
2. The financial losses and reputation damage arising from fraud or inappropriate behaviour are rising and will become more significant with the increasing value of intellectual assets in a primarily Digital Economy.
3. There are many intrinsic security vulnerabilities in company infrastructures – through legacy system weaknesses or unpatched platforms - that can trigger a major security incident through malware introduced by an accidental or deliberate connection of a company laptop to an external network or from the attachment of an external device to a company networks by staff or contractors.

Read the others HERE.

A lot of problems arise when companies think that their only threats are external. But, as odd as it may sound, there have been studies which prove that internal threats cause more damage compared to external ones. Let that be a reminder.

Tags: Computer Protection