Articles like this one IT-Professionals-Network-Snooping-Cyber-Ark-spying-work,10840.html#xtor=RSS-181 really burns me up.  I can personally say I have experienced many of these issues right here in Charleston from apparently reputable firms.  You can rest assured Advyon will never snoop, steal, or borrow your valuable data.  You see, our job is to protect your data.  We understand your computer is just the tool that accesses your most important asset, your data.

So, how can you tell if someone is snooping on you and how can you protect yourself?

a.  Ask if your IT company if they have "Unrestricted Remote Access", if he says "Yes", ask if you can have a work order or a monthly log for every log in and log out.

b.  Have your files moved?  Have the dates changed on your files?  Both are tell tale signs of messing around.

c.  Ask for the administrator passwords, a big red flag is if they will not give you your own password to your own network.  Normally if a company will not give you the administrator password, they either use the same password for many networks, a VERY DANGEROUS practice, or they are up to no good.

d.  If you just don't have a good feeling.  IT people are mostly quiet by nature, but if you sense something is not right, then you are probably right!  Ask probing questions about your data and information, if they know too much, most of the time you can catch them.