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Elliot Richards is Vice President of Technical Support for Hawthorne Industries. He was in the office of the Vice President of Finance, Gary Peters. They were discussing computer security issues.
"Elliot we do have a major confidentiality problem," Gary said.
"The Head of security checked all office computers and found no breach. So, if an outsider is accessing data it is not from any of our office computers," Elliot replied.
"Then the information is being accessed at the officer level," Gary replied.
"With the President's authorization I can monitor the officers' home business computers if he thinks it is necessary. Given the sensitivity of privacy verses security, I would personally conduct the monitoring activities," Elliot told him.
Two days later Elliot had authorization. The President instructed him to personally find the security breach. It was to be his primary assignment. From his office desktop computer Elliot began systematically and secretly accessing the home computer of the officers.
To begin his monitoring, he would routinely run a series of file searches to identify and list all of the business files that had been accessed at home. He was surprised to find file GFD2006 was constantly being updated on Gary Peters' computer. To investigate, he tried to open the file. It was password protected. It was clearly a company file name so he ran a special administrative program which would enable him to unlock the file. Minutes later the program dinged. He hit the open file icon to find out why General Financial Data for 2006 was constantly being accessed and changed. What popped up on the screen was not what he was looking for:

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