Day 371 of the home-working revolution: the rats have comfy new central London homes, small people keep asking me how to do long division and I fear I will never have a Friday fish-and-chip lunch at the pub again. During the...
Sooner or later, employees leave – and in almost all cases, they take their organisation’s sensitive data with them. You might think this threat is limited to employees who have been sacked or feel mistreated, but it’s a far more widespread...
Earlier this month, a former RAC employee was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment for stealing company data and sharing it with another firm. An ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) investigation revealed that Kim Doyle transferred RAC customers’ names, mobile phone numbers and...
Seeding is the practice of planting dummy details into a database. Organisations do this so that they can monitor how the information is being handled and identify when it has been misused or breached. The practice is becoming increasingly popular, as...
