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Tech-Savvy Millennials Present Workplace Security Risk

Young Adults Who Grew Up With Technology Join Workforce

POSTED: 6:42 pm EDT August 20, 2008
UPDATED: 9:16 am EDT August 21, 2008

The millennials, young adults who grew up with cutting-edge technology, are coming of age and joining the workforce armed with the latest gadgets, which creates new security risks.

As baby boomers get ready to retire, the new generation entering the workplace has grown up with the Internet, iPods, cell phones and interactive communications.

Workers can use some personal technology to take work home, and that's created concern about data security.

Daniel Westman, a lawyer who specializes in protecting intellectual property, said trade secrets used to be kept under lock and key...
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