Accessing all your areas

13-Jun-2007

One in three of your IT colleagues are snooping through company systems, and peeking at confidential information such as your private files, wage data and personal details, according to a survey by information security company Cyber-Ark Software. They just have to use the special administrative passwords that give IT workers privileged and anonymous access to virtually any system. One IT administrator laughed out loud as he answered the survey, saying: "Why does it surprise you that so many of us snoop around your files? Wouldn't you if you had secret access to anything you can get your hands on?!" As if that weren't bad enough, the survey found that more than one-third of IT professionals admit they could still access their company's network once they'd left their current job.