Brain Cramps: Office Espionage Part 8
Next to going through the trash, the most vulnerable area for exploitation in the typical office is the human brain. You can have an excellent security plan and if it isn’t implemented it is of no use at all.
Here are a few of the major offenders in the office:
- Unsecured offices, cabinets, drawers and doors. Take a five minute stroll through your office and jiggle some doorknobs and cabinet handles.
- Files left on the desk over night. How many times has five o’clock rolled around and you walked toward the door and noticed confidential files left out on desks?
- Group passwords. School systems are notorious for this. Not only do most school sites utelize the same site identifier used as the username, but they use the same password as well. Do a Google search and you’ll get more than a million hits on “student hacks school.”
- Company phone directories. Most large corporations publish a directory. The directory not only publishes the names and numbers but the job title as well. I can’t imagine an easier way to get information through misrepresentation.
- Desktop Rolodex. Flip through the office supports Rolodex and you’ll be shocked at what you find. I once worked with a woman who kept her boss’ full name, social security number and birth date in her Rolodex. Scary.
This post is part of a 10 piece segment of a series which polishes and updates some of the more popular security posts I’ve written.
Describing A Spy
http://elementaltruths.com/?p=415
Office Traitors
http://elementaltruths.com/?p=414
Business Brain Cramps
http://elementaltruths.com/?p=413
Starbucks Espionage
http://elementaltruths.com/?p=412
Recording Devices
http://elementaltruths.com/?p=411
Cell and Cordless Phones
http://elementaltruths.com/?p=410
Hacking Passwords
http://elementaltruths.com/?p=409
Pop-In Spooking
http://elementaltruths.com/?p=407
Office Espionage
http://elementaltruths.com/?p=408
Waste Archeology
http://elementaltruths.com/?p=406
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