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I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by this, but I was: 1/3 of the senior IT workers surveyed by software firm Cyber-Ark admit to taking a look at confidential information on the networks they maintain.

It is kind of disappointing that people do this kind of thing. I’ve done a little bit of IT work in my time and I never wanted to know what people were doing on their computers. First of all, I wouldn’t want anybody doing it to me, and second, it’s just kind of pathetic.

The report also noted that companies are very negligent in their changing of privileged passwords. 9% were never changed, meaning ex-employees would still have access to confidential information.

Another thing to be noted is that a lot of IT workers are forced by senior management to do some snooping. This is obviously different from going out on one’s own to see what employees are doing, but it’s something that has to be mentioned.

Okay, I’ll admit it: it may be somewhat useful to know that salaries of your co-workers. That would be rather tempting. But everything else… no way. Really. Honest.

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