An article over at VarBusiness has started this very good discussion over on Slashdot.

Where do you stand? Do you require background checks of all your workers> IT Workers? No one? I once had to be fingerprinted in order to work at a mutual fund company, but I believe that was a requirement for all staff.

There are some interesting comments in the thread about how effective/ineffectice background checks are for weeding out those folks with ethics that might allow them to hurt y our company and your customers.

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Are Background Checks Necessary For IT Workers? 4foot10 writes "UBS PaineWebber learned a hard lesson after hiring an IT systems admin without conducting a background check. Now its ex-employee is slated to be sentenced for launching a 'logic bomb' in UBS' computer systems that crashed 2,000 of the company's servers and left 17,000 brokers unable to make trades."

(Via Slashdot.)

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