Security is the one non-negotiable in business today. Whether it is securing the building one operates in, providing a safe working environment for employees, protecting IT systems from hackers and malicious software, or protecting corporate data from external and internal threats, business leaders cannot effectively meet their fiduciary duties without including security in their strategies.
"Our current lifestyles and business methodologies automatically take most security considerations into account when running a business," says Amir Lubashevsky, director of Magix Integration. "One area that is sorely neglected in South African businesses of all sizes, however, is the enormous internal security threat posed by employees.
"It is all very well to search employees when they leave a building to make sure they do not take their computer's hard drive home, but what are corporations doing to ensure their staff do not purposely corrupt information or sell it to a competitor. There are criminal syndicates in operation today making a lucrative business out of recruiting employees from various companies and paying them to change or steal data. Would you rather lose a piece of hardware worth R1000 or have sensitive data passed to a competitor and lose millions of rands in potential new business?"
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