T 5.16 Threat posed by internal staff during maintenance/administration work

To their own advantage, or as a favour for colleagues, internal staff might, during maintenance or administration work, try to modify privileges (e.g. international dialling authorisation) or to activate user facilities. System crashes can be caused through ignorance. Also, improper handling of hardware components might result in their destruction. In addition, maintenance staff may have full or restricted access to the stored data (read and write).

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