Trade Secret Law and your IT Infrastructure
I was reading an article entitled, "The Cutting Edge of Trade Secrets--How Far Should the Law Go To Prevent Misappropriation by Memory and Inevitable Disclosure" and what I found relevant to most small business computer networks are that employees often can setup email accounts and store emails on their personal home computer should the telecommuter - work at home.
How can this be detrimental to your customer database, communications, trade secrets? Imagine a long time employee having access to every single communication between your company and your customers. A long list of readily available contacts should this employee leave the company. While they could argue memory recollection; alternative means of finding the exact same contact, why give them a leg up by allowing remote storage of such sensitive information?
Consider emerging technologies into desktop virtualization to centrally store ALL applications and data. Emails, Contacts, Calendars, Documents would no longer be stored on an employee's laptop or PC/Mac. All of it would be centrally managed IN-HOUSE.
Hopefully, we will hear from some experts in this emerging field.
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