Strategic information such as employee records, business documents, intellectual property and daily transactions are spread across a company's computer systems. Electronic Risk (eRisk) is any vulnerability to the data including theft, deletion, disclosure or other inappropriate use of electronic data and computer systems. eRisk Defender helps to protect against the most unpredictable of all threats, the human computer user.
Employee Threat
Employees must access the systems and create digital information to do their jobs. Not knowing about a theft or misuse of intellectual property, or non-compliance with a government or industry regulation could cause severe financial and competitive damages. Monitoring how employees use computers is essential to protecting strategic company assets.
Competitive Threat
Many a trusted executive or member of a highly skilled workforce have fallen victim to a lapse in good judgment. Revenge for a perceived injustice, inducements by a competitor, a desire to start a competing business, or other motivations have led individuals to copy and export sensitive data to external computers—and even run a competitive or related business from their employer's facility. Undetected, impact to a business can range from harmful to devastating.
Compliance Threat
In the U.S., 14,000 federal and state regulations govern functions and processes performed by corporate computer systems. Companies across all industries are affected and are subject to assorted regulatory actions, including criminal or civil penalties, if found not to be in compliance. Insufficient company processes, policies, standards, and operating procedures, or employees' failure to follow standards and procedures, pose serious threats to the company and culpable individuals.
Other eRisk Threats
- Theft of employees' personal information from HR records
- Theft of customers' information and financial records
- Disclosure of a key customer's or partner's business interactions with the company despite being bound by a non-disclosure agreement
- Employees' inappropriate online activity or other personal web pursuits on company time
- Documented failure to comply with company standard operating procedures
eRisk Facts