Keep an eye on what those providers' men doing

According to a news from com.com, an auditor of McAfee from Deloitte Touche USA losed the information CD where contains much of privacy information of McAfee's employees. It's a security incident happening outside of cyber space security.

Another news reported that an engineer from UTstarcom intruded into the deposit card system of Beijing Mobile, which is the baby company of China Mobile. The intruder stole cards and numbers with value of up to millions of RMB for personal reason. That's a security incident happening at the cyber space security.

Both of them are done by the employees from the providers, which we should pay more attention. In order to magnify their core value and competitiveness, the telco companies are outsourcing more and more business to the partners, for product implementation, optimization, maintenance, auditing and etc. That means more and more 3rd part engineers are working tegather with their own employees, sharing the same internal networks and some other resources. It must be becoming a great challenge for security management in the recent years. The IT managers should keep an eye on what those providers' men are doing at your territory.