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IT Data Centers Commence Workplace Monitoring

Computers and the Internet have advanced greatly since the year 1981 when personal computers such as the IBM personal computer with blazing 6MHz speed and ten to twenty megabyte hard drive hit our desks and work areas. As with all things, there is going to be good, and there will be bad. With the advent of cyber criminals, hackers, malware and other intrusions into our way of information technology utilization, security is a definite necessity. Add to the above the unsafe practices of users and employees, and the problem of retaining secure facilities becomes multiplied.

Instead of paper shuffling and appearing to look busy, now employees are online in social networks, checking email, sending instant messages and more. Some of these transmissions can easily contain your company’s most largest secrets. An employee can leak sensitive information, your next big patent or invention, blueprints, plans and more, and do it very easily without your knowledge, either by accident or intentionally. Then there is the circumstance of adult web sites and other not safe for work sites that are viewed on company time. And, some employees are smart enough to cover their trail and browser history, erase cookies, empty caches, and just about hide their activities from all but the most astute administrator.

How can you protect yourself and your crucial information? Web site blocking, filters, email scans, and software applications that monitor keyboard activity. Some data centers even monitor what their employees put on blogs, social network sites, and other personal Internet space, whether it is done from home or work. Phone calls are monitored, texts are retained, and GPS is even employed to track an individual’s location. Data centers have arrived at the place where they have to use their technical expertise to thwart employee’s unprofessional practices. The surveillance may sound like Big Brother, but think of the consequences when compliance is broken and the company suffers a setback due to improper security actions.

Does it rub some IT administrators the wrong way? Yes it does. It is a growing necessity to spy on your fellow co-workers? Yes it is. This is why an information security expert is needed at the workplace. It is their job and responsibility to the company to put a halt to bad security practices, both from the employee and from the company that does not feel they have a security problem, right up to the point when it actually happens. CISSP CBT training explains the many areas of security missed by businesses, including environmental security, acces control, risk management, business continuity, network security, telecommunications, and more. K Alliance is a source of quality and professional training courses such as this.

Employee activities online are a growing concern. Imagine a bank, insurance firm or investment house that does not realize its employees are visiting not safe for work sites, such as gambling sites, adult sites, or social networks filled with unknown links. Even if the employee does not realize the implications, a site they visit turns out to download malware that finds a security hole and exploits it. As far as eighteen months later, either a routine audit or by accident the breach is discovered, uncovering financial accounts and personal information that was stolen, with dollar amount in the millions. Does the company reveal the intrusion, and risk losing customers and destroying the brand and reputation? Or do they keep it quiet, try to close the hole, and hope no one discovers the loss? Yes, this happens with regularity.

Obtain CISSP information security training now, and protect your business and the honor it holds in the eyes of your customers.

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