Case Study: Proactive Engagement-Immediate Resolution
Challenge:
- Pharmaceutical company CEO observes suspicious behavior by key member of technical management team
Solution:
- With strong electronic usage policies in place, CEO engages IT Acceleration to examine manager's hard drive
- Within minutes, IT Acceleration found the hard drive to contain web-based email dialog with contacts outside the company discussing intellectual property with a newly formed competing business
- Further examination of hard drive showed proposals and research information were copied directly from company's intellectual property database
- Manager's computer was also found to have a library of downloaded and categorized pornography, another violation of electronic usage policies
- With evidence uncovered by IT Acceleration in hand, CEO summoned outside counsel to participate in meeting culpable manager
Benefits:
- Intellectual property recovered and Manager terminated without need to provide severance pay or fear a wrongful termination lawsuit
- Matter concluded in less than two days and Company maintained control of situation throughout (not yielding costly litigation to attorneys)
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