Your business' data could be compromised by the most unlikely of sources -- your own IT manager.
Over the past couple months, I’ve encountered multiple chilling examples of IT staff
- A healthcare company with a one-person IT department has seen a lot of growth recently. As a result, the IT manager has had a difficult time keeping up with the many demands of the developing business. This manager heard rumors that the company was considering outsourcing their IT, and he suddenly stopped cooperating or responding to the president of the company. Next, he quietly began moving things around in their system creating weaknesses,
vulnerabilities and a potential takedown. The business owner lost a lot of sleep over this guy! Ironically, the company president never intended to eliminate the IT manager's position but provide him additional resources from an IT company.
- At another business with
a one-man tech department, the IT director was fired for ethical violations far outside of his role in IT. However, even after his termination, he used a password only he knew to gain remote access to the company’s systems and move files around. What’s worse is he made it look like someone else had done it! Lawsuit pending.
We get it. Historically it made sense to hire the very best IT expert a company could find to manage and monitor the network infrastructure (i.e. everything that plugs in), but today companies are benefiting more by sharing their risks with a partner company like TekLinks. We have more than 16 years of experience partnering with companies of all sizes to meet their IT and security needs. Contact us today!
Jennifer Lagutin is a Technical Solutions Manager with TekLinks. Email her at jlagutin@teklinks.com.
