For today's employers proper employee use of e-mail, message boards, media-sharing Web sites and blogs is becoming increasingly important. Yesterday, Kelly Savage of Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold LLP discussed the growing risk of e-mail and blog mis-use with our lunch & learn attendees and offerred advice on implementing a successful electronic communication security policy to prevent the devastating consequences associated with employee abuse of of these and other electronic forms of communication.
Kelly represents clients in the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, transportation, computer, real estate and insurance industries and has almost a decade of experience counseling and defending companies in state and federal court at both the court and appellate level. Her presentation included polls that showed lunch & learn attendees experiencing e-mail and blog mis-use issues at their companies with the same frequency as the surveys Kelly was referencing. As many as one in three employers say they have investigated a suspected leak of confidential proprietary information in the last year, and 27.6 percent of employers surveyed have terminated an employee for violating e-mail policies.
With the issue clearly significant and growing, Kelly outlined an effective security policy to help address the issues. She also offerred to provide a sample security policy to any company who may need it as a reference point. You can contact Kelly at kelly.savage@sdma.com.
Also, check out Kelly's slides from the presentation:
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