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Here are three quick tips for enjoying the convenience of WiFi and helping to protect your privacy.<br> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/privacy/wirelessnetwork.mspx"> <font color="#0000FF">Read More...</font></a></font><b><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#D24022"><br> <br> Does your network see dead people?</font></b><font face="Verdana" size="2"><b><font color="#D24022"> </font></b><br> </font><font face="Verdana" size="2"> <br> </font> <b><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#D24022"> <img border="0" src="images/deadpeople.jpg" width="74" height="65" align="left" style="float: left; border: 1px solid #175A82" hspace="5"></font></b><font face="Verdana" size="2">A staff member in your company passes away. Weeks later, you discover the de</font><font face="Verdana" size="2">ad staff member is still accessing email and </font> <font face="Verdana" size="2">the company intranet. It turns out that the staff members w</font><font face="Verdana" size="2">ife is simply using her late husband's laptop to get online, never realizing that she is signed on to your network under her husband's credentials.<br> <br> While this scenario would be rare, it does illustrate the difficulty of ensuring that user accounts are consistently and securely provisioned and unprovisioned. I should be made a part of the HR process to inform whoever looks after IT for the company so the login is not usable.<br> <br> <font color="#175A82">Similar scenarios are common:</font><font color="#000000"><b> </b></font><br> <br> Of 334 respondents to a survey, nearly 65 percent answered yes to the question "If an employee leaves or is fired, could account information still exist in your directories when you remove that person from your systems?"<br> <br> Another problem is that employees will often share passwords and the password of the employee who has left is possibly known to others. <br> <br> Their account should at least be disabled. 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