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IT Staff Snooping at Work on the Rise, Survey Reveals
Tarmo Virki | June 12, 2009

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Helsinki, Finland. More than one-third of information technology professionals in at least two countries abuse administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues’ salary details or board-meeting minutes, an industry survey says.

Data security company Cyber-Ark surveyed more than 400 senior IT professionals in the United States and Britain and found 35 percent admitted to snooping, while 74 percent said they were able to access information not relevant to their role.

In a similar survey 12 months ago, 33 percent of IT professionals admitted to snooping. “Employee snooping on sensitive information continues unabated,” said Udi Mokady, Cyber-Ark chief executive. Cyber-Ark said the most common areas respondents indicated they accessed were HR records, customer databases, merger and acquisition plans, layoff lists and marketing information.

“While seemingly innocuous, [unmanaged privileged] accounts provide workers with the ‘keys to the kingdom,’ allowing them to access critically sensitive information,” Mokady said.

When IT professionals were asked what kind of data they would take with them if fired, the survey found a jump compared with a year ago in the number of respondents who said they would take proprietary data and information that is critical to maintaining competitive advantage and corporate security.

The survey found a six-fold increase in staff who would take financial reports or merger and acquisition plans, and a four-fold increase in those who would take CEO passwords and research and development plans.



Reuters