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12/03/2010 -
Payment processing security best practices have long involved educating employees about proper IT security, in order to minimize the risk of a data breach. But what happens when education doesn't matter, and an employee knowingly violates policy?According to a study from Fiberlink, this is not a rare instance - 12 percent of employees surveyed said they knowingly violate their company's IT policy in the interest of getting work done, IT news website Ars Technica reported.
To maintain payment processing security in the face of this threat, companies are advised to strictly enforce their IT policies, re-evaluate the policies themselves to see if they are unnecessarily restrictive, and to beef up their access restrictions to minimize the number of employees that have access to sensitive payment processing information.
Supervision - whether personal or through the use of security cameras - may also be helpful to reduce the risk of employee-caused security breaches.
Negligent employees are not the only risk to IT security - StorefrontBacktalk.com recently called bored employees "one of the most dangerous and often overlooked threats" to payment processing security.
