UK businesses are blind to the data breach risks posed
by temporary staff, with over 80% of them having the same level of
access to company documents as permanent staff, but without the
same accountability.
In the Information Open Access survey of over 100 temporary
staff by
internet security firm Websense, it was revealed that 88% of
them were able to access documents from the company network drive,
and that 52% had used a co-worker's e-mail account.
In addition, 81% had unlimited access to the internet from their
work PC. But only 21% of temporary workers had signed any type of
corporate PC or web use policy.
Websense said the lack of security would pose an even bigger
threat during the christmas season, as the level of UK temporary
staff would balloon from 770,000 to 900,000.
