Effective Employment Practices for Protecting IT – Part I

Based on extensive research by various knowledge leaders, the greatest harm or disruption to IT-based information services emanates from intentional or unintentional actions of internally employed individuals. Frequently, information systems experience disruption, damage, loss or other adverse impacts due to the well-intentioned actions of employees authorized to use or maintain IT objects. Therefore, securing reductions in harm or disruption to furnished IT services mandates emphasizing and periodically reemphasizing defined rules of behavior to individuals employed by the entity.