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Duty of care - organizations are increasingly deemed, both legally and ethically, to have a duty of care to ensure the safety of clients’ and employees’ information.
Safeguard your firm against legal liability by stopping the problem where it starts.
Legal troubles can stem from any number of sources; employees accessing inappropriate content, sexual harassment, cyber-bullying ordata leakage that leads to identity theft and lack of compliance.
Best practices of securing your firms image dictate a multi-faceted approach. The solution cannot rely on the good will or skills of your employees and at the same time it should not stop your workforce from accessing a resource as information-rich as the Internet. That being said there is a real need for filtering and monitoring - reports of employees caught downloading pornography are a daily occurrence. The media will never tire of outing a large organization’s mismanagement when it comes to their employees and pornography – and the public will never get bored of reading about it.
Compliance - If data leakage occurs and the contents are used in identity theft, the cost to the firm at fault can be detrimental. The 2006 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach (Benchmark Research) estimates that the total per-incident cost is an average $4.8 million. That number is significant enough to affect share price and investor relations for years to come. Through the many privacy infringements, state-dictated compliance has developed; the Gramm Leach Bliley Act (financial information), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Sarbanes Oxley, and Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council Act, Workplace Surveillance Act, Privacy Act(s) to name a few.
Sexual Harassment - Sexual harassment via e-mail, or Cyber-Bullying has become a serious issue in today’s workplace and in many countries precedence has been set which deems the firm liable for the actions undertaken by its employees. This can translate into very expensive legal proceedings as well a throng of negative media attention. It has been reported that 13% of companies have battled sexual harassment and/or discrimination claims stemming from inappropriate Internet use.
It is important to note that courts are increasingly taking the view that the employer has a duty of care to protect employees against such material being made available and/or being displayed in the workplace. When the threat of legal action is brought against your organization, substantial costs are incurred. When the media gets wind of the issue it has been demonstrated that it becomes incredibly embarrassing for the organization. The resulting damage to reputation is often irreparable.
ContentKeeper mitigates the risk of all these embarrassments, the cost of potential litigation, and damage done in the organization's reputation. Is it worth the risk?
