Repeat After Me: P2P Is For Stealing Music, Not Sharing Employee Records

Well, we finally know how Pfizer lost all those employee records. An employee installed P2P file sharing software on her laptop, and probably shared her entire drive. Oops. I bet I know one person that's eating alone in the corporate lunchroom.

We originally talked about this a few weeks ago.

I'd like to remind people of my Top 5 Steps to Prevent Information Loss and Data Leaks. Securing endpoints is number 5.

I hate having to clamp down on employees with harsh policies, but limiting P2P on corporate systems is in the category of "reasonable things".

(thanks to Alex Hutton for the pointer)

—Rich