Historically giving your users internet access before work, after work and during lunch didn’t pose any risk at all. The worst they could do would be to purchase an over prices Procul Harum record on ebay – oh how?times have changed.

Small pieces of information on their own would appear to provide no security risk at all, but if a competitor could correlate information from?a number of your employees?- they could in some circumstances weed out snippets of information that would be considered sensitive by company management.

No longer is this the sole domain of the desktop or laptop computer – many mobile phones have the ability to ‘twitter’ or post messages by facebook?and?these aren’t even a part of the business infrastructure.

A written and signed security policy and user training is the antidote to this threat along with training of all employees of the dangers of releasing any information that’s publicly visable no matter how unimportant it may seem.

This basic rule applies – don’t write anything down about what you do or what you’re doing regarding work – ever!