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October 29, 2008

Do you follow all the rules?

Every company I've ever worked for has had their own set of rules from the IT group that employees are told to follow. And while the rules have certainly evolved over time as more and more complex technology becomes part of our daily job routines, one thing seems to have stayed constant -- Not everyone follows all the rules all the time!

Here's some nice commentary from CSO magazine titled "3 Reasons Why Employees Don't Follow Security Rules".

Gartner analyst Frank Kenny chimes in on the major reasons he believes that people don't adhere to corporate security policies -- and what they need in order to get on board with the rules. Frank does a great job of tying his thoughts back to today's common employee need of having to share files and data.... And how doing so in a non-secure and rogue manner can certainly put sensitive company data and information at risk of being compromised.

Anyways, here are Frank's 3 major reasons:
* They don't know the rules
* If they do know the rules, no one is enforcing them
* Rules get in the way of productivity

Makes sense.... And sure does sound simple enough.

Can it really be that easy?

Posted by Hugh Garber at October 29, 2008 02:21 PM digg this add to del.icio.us add to My Web Furl this page

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