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 Identity Theft at Work Article Date: June 25th, 2006 Working in the computer field and being in charge of an IT department makes oneself aware of technology and the security risks technology brings. One such risk is identity theft at work. That is why my IT department has undertaken a directive to increase computer security and prevent identity theft at work. To my surprise, implementing new policies that prevent identity theft at work has been a pain. Users don't want to give up their so called "freedoms" while at the same time, they do not understand the risk they pose to the company and to their identity. Previous IT managers had allowed everyone to be an admin on their work computers and the users did what they wanted. I thought this was a terrible mistake, but after talking to my wife, whom also works for a small company, I found out it is not uncommon. Every day we hear in the news about identity theft and I cannot believe companies would not take more action to protect people's identity at work, if not doing it for the sole purpose of decreasing the company's liability or to protect the company's data. I believe lack of understanding is the main security issue with identity theft; therefore, I gave a presentation to my company recently. In it I mentioned how easy it is to steal someone's identity at work. My hope was that employees would fear for their own identity and have a better understanding of why they need to support our security policies. If an employee understands how to protect their identity at work, odds are they will protect a customer's identity from theft. This article highlights some of the points from my presentation and follows up with the actions we are taking to prevent identity theft and breeches of security at work. My goal is that viewers who read this article can learn how to protect their information from identity theft at work and at home. If anyone in the IT field reads this article and doesn't have a security policy in place to deal with identity theft at work, I would hope this article convinces them into protecting their fellow employees identity. As an added bonus, doing these things will increase security at work and eliminate some headaches down the road. Identity Theft Facts:
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