In the News

Companies Start Holding Employees Responsible
for Security of Laptops

The burden of lugging around laptop computers for work around the clock is getting heavier as companies place more of the responsibility of guarding against theft and other security lapses on their employees.

A number of companies, including Aetna, Inc. Fidelity Investments and the U.S. unit of ING Group NV, are reviewing their policies about how employees should handle confidential data stored on computers.  Many employees are facing new restrictions on who can take confidential records out of the office and are receiving special training on how to keep data secure.  Workers found violating security policies are being disciplined or even dismissed.
[M.P. McQueen, The Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2006] 

Additional information is available at http://www.utsa.edu/infotech/SP/index.htm or you may contact Annette Evans, UTSA Information Security Officer,
at (210) 458-5899.

From UTHSCSA Compliance Outlook newsletter, July 2006