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Subject: [ISN] IT Security Unleashes Employee Complaints
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Date: 2010-08-31 8:36:41
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By Mathew J. Schwartz
InformationWeek
August 30, 2010
For 12% of CIOs, hearing complaints from employees over IT security
measures -- specifically, limits on their access to certain types of
websites or networks while using the office network -- is a common
occurrence. Meanwhile, 29% of CIOs say such gripes are at least
"somewhat common."
The numbers come from a survey of more than CIOs, selected randomly from
companies in the United States with 100 or more employees, conducted by
staffing firm Robert Half Technology.
"There will always be employees who feel IT security policies are too
restrictive," said John Reed, executive director of Robert Half
Technology, in a statement. "But in most situations, robust information
security measures are necessary to protect sensitive data and an
organization's network integrity from increasingly sophisticated
threats."
On the other hand, said Reed, if too many people are complaining, then
maybe it's time to reevaluate whether an organization's security
policies have come down on the wrong side of the
security-versus-productivity equation.
[...]
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