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Enterprise IT, Featured, News - Monday, April 16, 2012 16:23 - 22 Comments
Lacking reality: Sysadmins slam “snooping” claims
news Australia’s peak representative body for systems administrators has taken an axe to claims published in the Sydney Morning Herald last week that a huge proportion of IT professionals abused their system access to illegitimately read others’ email, calling for evidence to be presented to back the claim.
The claim was made in an article published by the newspaper last week, by Carlo Minassian, founder and chief executive of Earthwave, a minor IT security company based in North Sydney. “We know that 40 per cent of IT email administrators and IT managers look inside their manager’s, their board’s, their chief information officer’s, and chief executive officer’s emails regularly and read their email,” Minassian reportedly said.
However, in a statement issued this morning, the System Administrators Guild of Australia (SAGE-AU) strongly repudiating the claim, stating that it “does not reflect reality”. “SAGE-AU condemns the article for lacking any qualification or validation of this figure,” the organisation’s statement read. “The only source quoted is an organisation whose primary focus is the outsourcing of email and other computer system management for Australian businesses. SAGE-AU believes the claimed figure does not reflect reality and that the actual figure across all industries is substantially lower than this. SAGE-AU invites clear evidence from any party to the contrary – if it should exist!”
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