Can you really trust your employees?
As an IT professional who works with businesses and organizations, I have personally witnessed numerous cases of employee fraud over the years. Frequently these crimes are perpetrated by the most trusted employee – the one who has been there the longest, the one who has been given the greatest access to the company’s data and finances, the one who is counted as a company insider. Often these acts are committed over long periods of time, without detection, resulting in the embezzlement of impressively large sums of money. In each case the business owners were blindsided when it was discovered. “We would never have thought so-and-so could do this or that.” A good rule of thumb for your employees should be: The more trust is extended, the more caution should be exercised.
