Managers be warned: A significant threat to the security of your data may be the very people you pay to keep your secrets safe. That�s the message from a new survey that found more than a third of corporate information technology security professionals claim they have the ability to hold their organization�s data hostage.

Of the 500 information technology and data security staff who attended the recent Infosecurity Europe conference in London, 40 per cent boasted that they would find it easy to use their knowledge of encryption keys, shared passwords and loopholes in data security programs to walk off with any information they wanted.

And, because they know the systems and could take encryption keys and authorization codes, 31 per cent said they were sure they could hack in remotely and snoop, secretly alter files or shut down the data system, even if they no longer worked for the company.
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