Are you adequately protecting employees’ identities?

Employees are at increasing risk of identity theft according to a keynote speaker at a fraud summit in Atlanta this week. Johnny May is an identity theft expert and in a speech planned for last night he warns that businesses need to do more to protect their employees. He says that while in the past criminals have targeted consumers in cyber attacks but they are now likely to want to gain access to employee records, especially those with financial responsibilities. Criminals posing as genuine employees in the financial sector – an insurer perhaps – may have access to far greater sums of money and be able to misappropriate those funds more easily.