Tag: confidential information

In many cases when employers hire executive level, management or key employees, there is a recognition that these hires can impact the success of the business, due to the individual's recognition in their industry, or knowledge and experience, or client and customer relationships, or a combination of all of these qualities.

Employees are expected to remember and adhere to numerous policies, including privacy policies. Poster campaigns are rolled out to reinforce positive behaviour and still when we consider data breaches it is often unbelievable how the mistake that resulted in the breach could have possibly occurred.

A restraint of trade is used to protect an Employer’s proprietary interests from being accessed by an Employer’s competitors. The Employer’s proprietary interests include, but are not limited to, trade secrets and confidential information, goodwill, and skills. An enforceable restraint of trade will prevent an Employee from joining an Employer’s direct competitor if the Employee has acquired confidential information and trade secrets from the former Employer.

Contrary to popular belief, migrating to a digital payroll solution is not simply a case of copying and pasting data into a cloud environment. There are system-wide dependencies to consider, especially when it comes to accessing databases and other dynamic information.

Our experts are increasingly observing Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks. Between May and July 2021, our products prevented more than 9,500 BEC attacks globally, including those against businesses in air transportation, industry, retail, IT, and delivery.

Think the chat you’ve had with a group of colleagues is a secret and won’t cost you your job and reputation? Think again… Nobody could have predicted that the arrival of social media on the business and social scene more than ten years ago could lose people jobs, reputations and careers. But it has.

Zoom has claimed that it is actively trying to make changes and make the application more secure. The privacy and security issues escalated in recent times, and there are alternatives one can follow. Whether Zoom can be trusted or not depends on how it responds to the various privacy and security issues that have been brought forward in the past few weeks.

When boards of directors gather to discuss the top risks of an organisation, it may entail matters such as structurally high unemployment, labour unrest, exchange rate volatility, political uncertainty, unmanageable fraud and corruption, threats of new market entrants or even product stagnation. Whilst there are indeed many more topical risks that may be relevant to the nature of the organisation’s business and immediate environment, it is not common for a board to include the threat of their innovation and intellectual property (IP) being marginalised or lost.