Companies are looking for at least some ways to protect against leaks of confidential information via blogs and news websites. But however that may be a reliable antidote is not yet even been able to find a major international law firms.
In recent months, the company Yahoo! and several major law firms were surprised to find that information is not intended for prying eyes, such as redundancies, reduce costs and rules of the house, it is easy to fall in blogs or news websites.
Site Valleywag.com published a confidential internal instructions of Yahoo! for managers, conducting staff reductions. Do not spend on a conversation with a subordinate more than 15 minutes, do not talk to the dismissal of any extraneous topics mentioned in the instructions.
In June 2009, management law firm Schwabe, Williamson Wyatt reported just three or four staff on plans to dismiss 19 of the 400 workers and reduce wages. In just 41 minutes after the first reported the dismissal of employees, the company received a formal request to that effect to the legal news site AboveTheLaw.com.
We very much tried to limit the dissemination of information, because a reduction of hit men who have served the company for several years, - said Mark Long, managing partner of Schwabe, Williamson Wyatt. He said that the company had been forced to reconsider how to manage communications in the era of blogs and social networks.
a week earlier on the site AboveTheLaw.com was available information about future reductions in the salaries of law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman - even before the managers are able to communicate them to staff, the company representative confirmed. The company still does not know who posted the information on the blog.
flee with the help of expensive software
Financial Corporation Flushing reductions have been conducted, but on the prevention of leaks have already taken care managers. The company set the expensive software, preventing the sending of letters to the addresses and scan the attached files in search of classified information, said Alan Brewer, spokesperson of the Flushing Savings Bank.
Prior to this, the bank has blocked access to work in personal mailboxes 350. However, this practice is very prevalent in the financial industry.
in the Chicago law firm Neal, Gerber Eisenberg went a different way: a note to send some of the topics on the closure of the list. For example, the company has not shared information about the February dismissal. Managing Partner Jerry Biderman said that it is done with a view to a more direct and personal communication.
If you send an e-mail information a bit more people than necessary, it is highly probable that she will get on any site, - he adds.
in companies involved in Internet security, said that more and more employers establish such software. Spanish manufacturer of software Optenet reported that sales of software for web monitoring and protection of electronic mail increased by 50% during the first six months of this year compared to the same period last year. Technologies developed in the company, you can view the letter in search of secret or confidential information, block, and sending them to inform the manager.
When the leak does occur, some employers are actively pursuing the perpetrators. The company Kroll, dedicated consulting services in the area of risk, and electronic security, during the last year has received more requests from their clients to request to identify leaks, to the same period in previous years, said Rich Planski, managing director of classified information and investigations.
the cases of illegal data distribution wrathful staff that is largely linked to the current economic situation and the increasing number of involuntary separations, - said Francis De Sauza, Senior Vice President Group Security Company Symantec, a leading manufacturer of software for security.
Dallas Lawrence, vice president of digital solutions company Levick Strategic Communications, said that employers can no longer afford to distribute company information in a few days before its official announcement. We have to get used, he says, if something was known inside the company, then it will spread quickly and beyond its limits.
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