Both in the pages of Insurance & Technology and on I&T's web site, I've devoted considerable coverage to insurers increasing need to recruit and retain top IT talent. Turns out though, that it might be more important for carriers to watch employees going out the door than those coming in it.While I was busy mourning the loss of Tom Brady for the season, my colleague Anthony O'Donnell passed along this piece of information from Strategy Page: a survey of Britain-based network administrators revealed that a large majority would reveal IT security secrets if they were ever unexpectedly fired from their jobs.

from www.strategypage.com:

...a British survey of network administrators (the people who run the networks, and Internet access, in large companies) revealed that 88 percent admitted they would take company Internet secrets (passwords, system layout and the like) with them if they were ever suddenly fired...

...the knowledge that so many key corporate Internet specialists would spirit away such a treasure trove (and sell to an Internet crook or Cyber War organization) if they were fired, gives Internet gangsters and Cyber War specialists a small group of people to zero in on. Turn one of these disgruntled ex-employees, and you get the Internet keys-to-the-kingdom for a large organization.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to spend the rest of the day convincing myself that Matt Cassel can lead the Patriots to the Super Bowl.