Follow these best practices to protect against employee fraud and theft. Employee fraud accounts for 40 to 50 percent of all business losses, according to a 2008 Connecting Research in Security to Practice (CRISP) report estimate. But organizations have a secret weapon: Honest employees. “Eighty percent of the time,” JCK magazine reported, “honest employees know…
Corporate and financial disclosure may be the most visible part of SOX, but that’s not all it covers. If you become aware of fraudulent behaviors, you must report and you will be protected. When most people think of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (or SOX), they think of the scandals of corporate reporting revealed by the U.S.…
You would never hand over your work laptop to a competitor. You wouldn’t share work files or give someone access to the company’s financial records. The company’s physical property must be protected, and you understand the steps required to do that. But what about the company’s intellectual property? Are you keeping that safe and secure?…
Spam costs organizations billions of dollars a year—but you can help avoid those costs with some simple practices. A spam bot is an automated computer program designed to assist in the sending of spam. Wonder why you get so much spam? Popular spam bots can send out tens of thousands of spam messages per hour.…
It’s not always easy to know when you are in compliance. Compliance probably sounds like arcane mumbo-jumbo that only lawyers have to deal with. But in truth, compliance violations are more common than you think. A backyard BBQ, friends and family gathering around. One person is in an especially good mood—she knows her company is…
The healthcare industry is moving to an electronic world—phasing out paper medical records and replacing them with online systems to transmit and store electronic files. The increased availability of health information enables you to more easily access and transmit information, but also requires increased privacy and security controls to safeguard information. The Health Information Technology…
