Ten Gifts Your IT Department Doesnt Want You to Get This Holiday

Ten Gifts Your IT Department Doesnt Want You to Get This Holiday

Small, easy-to-use digital cameras are great for travel and taking photos while on the go. They can also be useful for surreptitiously copying sensitive corporate information and taking it off company grounds.

Ten Gifts Your IT Department Doesnt Want You to Get This Holiday – IRISPen

Why should disgruntled employees steal actual company documents when they can use this small pen scanner to copy documents while looking like they are working hard?

Ten Gifts Your IT Department Doesnt Want You to Get This Holiday – Sling Media Slingbox Pro SB200-100

For employees who dont like daytime TV, this device lets them watch — on company time — the shows that they taped at home last night.

Ten Gifts Your IT Department Doesnt Want You to Get This Holiday – Large Capacity Memory Sticks

Say bye-bye as confidential data walks out the door.

Ten Gifts Your IT Department Doesnt Want You to Get This Holiday – Skype Phones

Skype VOIP phones let employees call anyone in the world over the Internet for low or even no cost. But they can also wreak havoc with corporate networks.

Ten Gifts Your IT Department Doesnt Want You to Get This Holiday – Treo 680

Its a consumer play and Outlook users are going to sync all kinds of, um, stuff, into the corporate Exchange server.

Ten Gifts Your IT Department Doesnt Want You to Get This Holiday – iPods with Giant Hard Drives

The latest iPods feature hard drives that can hold lots of movies and music. And they also make it possible to copy the entire contents of a company server.

Ten Gifts Your IT Department Doesnt Want You to Get This Holiday – MMORPG Games

A commercial for the popular multi-player game World of Warcraft alters a scene from the movie ‘Office Space’ to show the main character playing the game while talking to his boss. Sometimes commercials really do mimic the real world.

Ten Gifts Your IT Department Doesnt Want You to Get This Holiday – New Machines with Express Vista Upgrades

With upgrades that employees can exercise at will rather than on a schedule, application breakage, here we come.

Ten Gifts Your IT Department Doesnt Want You to Get This Holiday – MITs iFind Beta

An application that lets Wi-Fi-carrying employees stalk each other.