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24/10/2008
Staff screening increasingly necessary for big firms |
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Staff screening is being used by a growing number of the UK's big businesses, it has been suggested.
Known as enterprise screening, it involves the methodical investigation of internal staff and contractors, as well as externally associated workers such as distributors, partners and agents.
Datanomic Ltd has suggested that big firms are relying more heavily on the process because they want to crack down on threats to their security.
The director of client screening for Datanomic, Simon Pearson, noted that this is because such threats can now come just as easily from inside a company as they can from outside.
"If you look at the way that terrorists, those involved in organised crime and money launderers now operate, they are planting employees, they are planting contactors, project managers and people like that into organisations," he commented.
Mr Pearson predicted that in the next few years, "systematic" enterprise screening will continue to grow in popularity.  |
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