You can not trust everyone you hire

More disturbing news coming out of the information security business today about the McAfee hacker safe program that is fairly disturbing in the longer run. Not just for the industry at large but for people who tend to trust that web sites and other sites are doing the right thing to keep their customers safe.

There are just some ideas that are fundamental to hiring someone, and that is the background check. Only to find out that there is yet another security person who has been indited for securities fraud. I wrote about that here.

This is more my general thoughts on things, like run a background check on those you hire. Not everyone is going to want to work for your shiny new company who has your companies best interests in mind.

There is a long trail on friend feed about this one as well right here.

While there are a lot of folks who are generally decent, but you can not trust everyone you hire, you want to, but some folks have motivations that can destroy a team, a company, a group, even a product, there are far too many examples of this kind of behavior.

This story here is one of those “prime examples” of otherwise good employee causes company lots of pain. These kinds of stories are far too common.

I keep on saying to just about anyone who will listen that people who are in the security industry have the same ability to mess with someone’s life as a bad lawyer, a bad doctor, and a bad nurse. Maybe it is time to clean the industry up, bring some real professionalism to it, so we can catch people like this earlier. Of course this takes a lot of due diligence on the part of an employer, we might not get there.

Tags: hire, information security, trust, false, sense, security