Survey: Unauthorized teleworkers a security risk
By Aliya Sternstein
National Journal's Technology Daily June 4, 2007
Federal teleworkers are less of a security risk than many of their in-office colleagues who take home government work without authorization, according to a report released Monday by the public-private partnership Telework Exchange.
An online poll of 258 federal employees including sanctioned teleworkers, non-teleworkers and non-teleworkers who unofficially work at home revealed that federal data is significantly more mobile and still vulnerable. Telework Exchange conducted the survey in May to examine changes in data mobility and security awareness one year after the loss of a Veterans Affairs Department laptop that contained personal data on 26.5 million veterans and active-duty members.
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