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Ex-employees walking out the door with corporate data

23 February 2009 • 1 min read

Symantec research finds more than half of laid-off workers take corporate data with them

Firms are not protecting their corporate information More than half of workers who left their jobs last year have admitted that they took confidential corporate information with them, according t...

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