Posts Tagged ‘jail time’

Insider Threat Example: Former Cox Employee Sent To Jail (And More) For Hacking System

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

It is not only important, but absolutely necessary, to let personnel know what your information security and privacy policies are, along with your organization’s sanctions, and then consistently enforce your policies. If personnel know that policies are not enforced, and that there is no negative consequence for not properly safeguarding information and systems, it becomes easy for personnel to not follow policies when it is inconvenient or time-consuming to do so. It is also easier for personnel to do bad things as vendettas when they get upset.

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