On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:00 PM, John Hodrien J.H.Hodrien@leeds.ac.uk wrote:
I think I see things differently. Allowing others to access your account *is* a security risk. It potentially opens confidential data open to other people, and leaves that specific user open to abuse through people using their machine. You might as well just pin your passwords on the notice board and be done. After all, you trust all your staff.
I don't agree with that, sorry.
A few years ago one of our staff members decided his salary isn't good enough so he started a side-line business, on our company time. He stole some of our client's data (contact details, emails, and even contracts) and sold it to 3rd parties. This went on for about 6 months before we actually realized what was going on.
Needless to say, he was fined heavily and sent to jail for 3 years. So, I don't care if you feel the PC is your's, as long as it's a company PC, with company data and company property, we will take a look at the data on it.
I'm not talking about your home / private PC, that's an altogether different story.