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One thing I have never seen mentioned is how organizations are dealing with IP theft such as source code. You could share IP with non employees such as a spouse by simply sharing your screen. It’s one thing to sign an NDA and another to have signed it but then inadvertent or intentional screen sharing is another.

I work in a highly regulated industry so not sure how this would work.

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That's irrelevant. If you want, you will steal without leaving any trace. If Snowden could sneak out loads of documents from the CIA, no company would be able to keep their IP airtight. NDAs and good old trust are the only way.

Well no, we have DLP products, disabling of USB drives, preventing of printing, etc

All of those things could have prevented Snowden from leaking. He wasn’t a Remote Worker

Showing a page of code do your wife is one thing, but stealing source code files is a complete other. Orgs are installing tools to track what you do and when you do it so that they can audit your actions. They might not be able to prevent you stealing the code but the evidence of your actions will be usable in a court of law when they make an example of you.

If you have never worked in a highly regulated industry such as defense or finance then I don’t think you would be so flippant over the data loss concerns.

I work in finance; if you came to me with these sorts of concerns I'd think you a paranoid lunatic.

Lock your screen when away from your desk, but no one is going to be pulling the secret sauce from your systems by occasionally going into your office to ask if you'd like a cuppa.

I get it - but I am not paranoid lol

This is coming from companies such as Lockheed Martin where working on tangentially related defense projects at home would be bad.

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