In Brief

Loyalties Die Hard

Here are some frighteningbut anonymouswords from a source familiar with security breaches at a number of Fortune 500 companies

By Malcolm Wheatley

September 01, 2003 — CSO — "The employees who are left behind are as much of an issue as the employee who was terminated," he says. Former coworkers, out of a misplaced sense of loyalty, may reconnect the terminated employee with the network. Sometimes that involves allowing him to recover "personal" information from his workstation. Or a former coworker might provide a terminated individual with an archive of his e-mail, allowing him to stay in touch with former customers. In other cases, individuals had their e-mail accounts re-enabled or were granted renewed VPN access. "It does happenit's not fiction," he says, "and it's surprisingly difficult to identify when it has happened, and who did it."

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