By now, we are all too familiar with the issues and pitfalls
associated with cybersecurity breaches in a multitude of
industries. Consider Equifax, Home Depot, Yahoo or Target, to name
a few. Those well-publicized incidents overwhelmingly concerned
customer and/or consumer privacy invasions, but touched barely, if
at all, on whether those breaches compromised employees'
private information, or whether those companies should have done
more to protect not only their customers' information, but
their employees' as well. Should this be of concern and if so,
what should employers be doing about it?
The answer, at a minimum, is that employers need to be thinking
about these questions, determining whether they ought to be getting
answers, and how quickly. If your customer data can be compromised,
no doubt your employees' data can be as well.
