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B information—an organizational resource that needs controlling

▸ ▸ ▸ in 2014—79,700 reported security incidents

and 2,122 confirmed data breaches. 23 ▸ ▸ ▸

• Information is critically important to everything an organization does—

that information needs to be protected.

◾ Controls: data encryption, system
firewalls, data backups, and other
techniques. 24

◾ Look for problems in places that might
not even have been considered, like
search engines.
◾ Equipment such as laptop computers,
tablets, and even RFID (radio-frequency
identification) tags are vulnerable to
viruses and hacking.
◾ Monitor information controls regularly to
ensure that all possible precautions are Bedrin/Shutterstock
in place to protect important information.

3 Keeping track of employee Performance

• Are employees doing their jobs as planned
and meeting goals that have been set?

• If not, employee counseling or employee
discipline may be needed.
See p. 238 in Chapter 7.

Over 81 percent of managers say they don’t
do very well at giving difficult feedback. 25

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