Employees successfully sue company for in-office surveillance
Officials at Hillsides, a residential facility for abused children in California, decided to set up a hidden video camera in two employees' joint office after suspicions cropped up that someone was accessing pornography at night.
California's Second Appellate District has ruled that the two employees need not establish that they were actually viewed or recorded to succeed on an invasion of privacy claim, reports the California Employment Law Letter....
One-third of corporate employees violate password policies
Passwords are largely ineffective at protecting corporate data due to common human error, a study by Nucleus Research and KnowledgeStorm finds. More than a third of employees write down or electronically record their passwords, creating significant vulnerabilities.
Even worse, lowering the quantity of passwords, changing password complexity, or altering password change frequency had no impact on employee actions....
Debunking workplace violence myths
THE MYTH: Violent employees just snap. THE REALITY: There are indicators of potentially violent behavior that, if recognized, can be managed, controlled...
Where are your employees?
In the days following Hurricane Katrina, emergency responders spent hundreds of man-hours trying to locate survivors and transport them to safety. The...
Ever Been Sued?
By Michael Fickes
As every security director well knows, lawsuits filed by people who have suffered injuries that a security director (acting for his or her company) should...
Why FIPS 201 matters to corporate security
LARRY ANDERSON, EDITOR
A deadline looms next month related to HSPD-12 and FIPS 201 and the federal government. For anyone who speaks a language other than Alphanumeric, these...
Nine business traveler tips to prepare a laptop for airport security
Chief Security Officers Seeing Significant Salary Increases
The nation's top corporate Chief Security Officers (CSO), those executives in charge of security for global companies in the United States, are paid,...
Viruses still lead corporate IT security concerns
Business Traveler Security Blunders
By Michael McCann
Effective security precautions require a conscious awareness of one's environment, as well as the need to exercise prudence, judgment and common sense. People traveling abroad on business should be aware that they may be targeted by terrorists, criminals, intelligence agencies or even a business competitor if they are in possession...
Security's Real Dollar Value
THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT employs 4.5 police officers for every 1,000 residents. Washington, D.C. fields seven officers for every 1,000 residents....
A Welcome Change
VISITOR MANAGEMENT is a prime concern for Hector Castro, corporate security director for Young and Rubicam. Not only is Castro responsible for security...
Handle With Care
By Richard W. Pavely
Mail center security is often relegated to the mail center management, which means the mail may not be as safe as it should be. Security professionals...
IMPROPERLY STORED DATA POSES CORPORATE RISK, REPORT SAYS
Fifty-four percent of more than 300 companies responding to a recent survey have no documented procedures for protecting stored data, and 70 percent of...
A New Breed of Virus
By Jacqueline Emigh
OLD-FASHIONED VIRUS ATTACKS ARE CORRUPTING COMPANIES these days from newer malicious software, or which includes Internet chat, high-end cell phones and...
DAY/NIGHT CAMERAS AT NY HOUSING AUTHORITY
The New York City Housing Authority has awarded a contract to equip 66 of its buildings in the New York Metropolitan area with security system equipment,...
Energy Synergy
PROVIDERS OF THE NATION'S ENERGY SECTOR (ELECTRICITY AND GAS) ARE ON ALERT. Laptop computers captured from Al Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan had maps...
Security For Instant Drug Tests
By Michael Fickes
HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENTS HAVE TRADITIONALLY MANAGED DRUG-TESTING PROGRAMS FOR COMPANIES, but today's new rapid or instant drug-testing technologies...
VIP Treatment
By Erin Semple
A terminated employee threatens upper management, vowing to return and kill his supervisor. Working with the local police and company security personnel,...
Ethics 101
By Michael Fickes
WHAT IF THE MANUFACTURER OF A WILDLY POPULAR METAL GADGET asked its security guard service to begin screening employees with metal detectors as the employees...
Ready or Not?
By Corrina Stellitano
THE RESULTS OF POOR PLANNING OR FAILED PLANS ranged from cataclysmic to inconvenient: thousands stranded on rooftops and overpasses; highways stalled...
Linking the West
WEST CORP., Omaha, Neb., is a provider of outsourced communication solutions, specializing in customer acquisition, customer care and interactive voice...
Technology Stretch
JUST A FEW SHORT YEARS AGO Kaukauna Utilities, a provider of electrical power and drinking water in Kaukauna, Wis., had one camera. The single camera...
ID THIEVES AMONG US
BY JACQUELINE EMIGH
As more and more records move from paper to the Web, personal information is becoming increasingly accessible not just to legitimate organizations, but...
Making The Connections
By James Gompers
Recently, the CIO of a major corporation wondered aloud how he was supposed to achieve a highly integrated security solution when he was observing no...
