Any security professional with scar tissue from working in a hierarchy soon learns to view overseers of any kind with at least one part suspicion for every two parts of esteem. Corporate investigators reserve some of their best war stories for tales of abuses by people who are supposed to performing a watchdog function, and no business unit is exempt from the archives: audit, human resources, information technology, and security practitioners themselves. All have the propensity to stray.
Here, just recently, is an article from ABC News that ultimately traces to PC World.
The source is important because it represents an industry tattling on itself. Next time you wonder who might be snooping on your e-mail, consider: Do you really want to ask IT for the answer?
- Nick Catrantzos
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- All Secure
- NICK CATRANTZOS is the lead author of the All Secure website and is the emeritus security director for a large public organization. He has also managed security aspects of corporate takeovers, response to international hostage situations, and finding and keeping secrets. He has been board certified in security management, licensed as a private investigator, and certified as an incident commander. He worked as a case officer for a discreet branch of public service. He protected stealth technology at Lockheed and, later, as a consulting security director for both Kroll and Control Risks, he assisted executives with workplace violence cases and with protecting VIPs and critical assets globally in volatile areas. Nick's partner, TOM GOFF, was a captain in the Military Police Corps, U.S. Army Reserve and has a law degree from the University of California at Davis. He is a former reporter for Fortune Magazine, was senior editor at New York Magazine and Esquire, and has provided crisis and communications counsel to senior executives at Fortune 500 companies, including Lockheed, ARCO, Microsoft, Nissan, and Sony Pictures.