Imagine for a moment that you have a briefcase containing hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash belonging to your organization. How would you treat this briefcase? Would you leave it unattended in an unlocked area for significant periods of time? Maybe on the front seat of your vehicle while you went shopping, or perhaps on the table at the cafeteria while you go for a drink refill? Sounds absurd, right? Unfortunately, this is exactly what people continue to do every day with their organization’s critical data and information, whether it’s stored on mobile electronic devices or other portable media.
Unlike most other crimes, employee fraud involves both deception and an abuse of the trust that has been placed in the perpetrators as part of their professional roles. Most fraudsters also undertake specific efforts to conceal their crimes. This combination of factors makes fraud schemes particularly difficult to detect – which, in turn, allows the frauds to continue uninterrupted and the losses to multiply.
18 percent of workers with office laptops share passwords; More than half don't have a laptop security device. What other security lapses abound in office laptop security?
While no car manufacturer has seen or reported an instance of hacking on one of their automobiles, the possibility is out there as nearly every modern car is made with several miniature computers embedded.
There will be 350 million employees using their own devices for work by 2014, a new report from Juniper Research says, compared to the current number of 150 million users.
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Remember that Barry McGuire 1965 song, “Eve of Destruction?” “The eastern world, it is exploding / Violence flarin', bullets loadin' / You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'?”
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