Clampdown urged on staff flouting security rules
Businesses are being urged to clamp down on staff who are flouting security rules, after a survey found that too many companies are vulnerable to ignorant or careless behaviour from their workforce.
Businesses are being urged to clamp down on staff who are flouting security rules, after a survey found that too many companies are vulnerable to ignorant or careless behaviour from their workforce.
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Brian Fellows had seen it all before. When media conglomerate Thomson acquired NewsEdge five years ago it was the second time NewsEdge had been swallowed up by a larger competitor. The anxiety that swept through NewsEdge’s 20-person IT department was palpable. But Fellows, then the distributor of electronic news and the security manager, kept his head.
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