Abstract

Organizations were waking up to the threat of data theft by their own employees with devices such as iPods, smart phones and digital cameras with large storage space becoming ubiquitous in the workplace. This new data security threat, that the experts called pod slurping, was increasingly becoming a major dilemma for the organizations.

Learning Objectives

The case is structured to achieve the following Learning Objectives:

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Keywords

iPod, PDA, smart phone, MP3 player, digital camera, pod slurping, industrial espionage, data theft, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited, Reliance Communications, IT and ITeS, BPO sector, data security, HR dilemma, fun at work, monitoring