Comments on: How hard is it to get robbed?

By: Emmanuel Carabott

Emmanuel Carabott — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:54:26 +0000

Tools are meant to help enforce policy. No tool is going to detect a con artist dealing with a sales person via the phone.
However, let’s say you have a policy that states no portable storage allowed, if you have software enforcing that policy and a con artist convinces someone with access to copy a confidential document for them, that software will stop the con artist.

There has to be a balance between the two.

But you’re right, software alone will not do the trick – you need to think about the risks and use software as a means to secure that risk

By: Carter Rubens

Carter Rubens — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:59:47 +0000

All these stories illustrate that even the most sophisticated software and hardware can’t protect you against con artists – external and internal. Unfortunately, even the strictest and most precise business rules that are in place to prevent such misdeeds are easy to hack and hard to catch.

By: Shawn@theEggIT

Shawn@theEggIT — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:10:00 +0000

The issue here is not trust, it’s security. We should keep them apart because the two don’t apply to the same system. It does not mean that if you trust someone, your organization is safe. This is one of the biggest mistakes a company makes – completely disregarding security protocols because of trust.

By: Aaron Shuck

Aaron Shuck — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:04:45 +0000

That’s why security tools should be user-friendly and have intuitive interfaces. The effectiveness of a software can be determined by how it complements with the users. But then again this is on “as is” basis. Large multinational corporations have different applied systems compared to small and medium-sized enterprises.

Usually, SMEs have so much trust with each other. That’s why you seldom hear cases of company breach in small companies with less than 20 employees. This is not the case of big corporations. They have a very complex system and most of the time they’re too bureaucratic.

By: Alex Wain

Alex Wain — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:17:58 +0000

If people want something badly enough to try and take it, then they’re capable of doing anything, moreso if they feel some kind of animosity toward their employer. It’s important to trust the people you put in charge of financial operations, but it is just as important to audit company activity regularly to detect any kind of peculiar behavior. Most companies don’t have to worry about people coming in with ski masks and guns demanding the petty cash, but somebody who processes transactions for the company has constant access to move money where they might see fit, and you don’t want to get caught losing your money this way.