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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The question all these opinions poses is - does an employer have a responsibility to protect an employee?
I'm not sure of this if the employee is the sole beneficiary of this protection, but if the employer is benefiting too, then yes.

If I was an employer, I would not want my employees to randomly click an attachment originating from outside the organization and subjecting the company to ransomware. I would have regularly updated security filters and periodically squeeze 15 minutes of IT security talk into staff meetings.  Which are exactly what I have gotten at my mid-size and large corporate job experiences.
What happened to this kid could have happened on a company computer and instead of a 3K scam, an innocent "welcome" pdf that's actually a virus that costs much more than 3K to clean out of the company server. The worse scenario is holding the company server ransom.

One could argue that protecting the employee is protecting the company.[/quote]

It is nice if they are able to afford absorbing this loss financially. They are not morally obligated but this kid was very lucky. I hope the OP teaches her to own up to her mistake instead of blaming the company. I would not want to keep someone on payroll who had a tendency to avoid personal responsibility for doing ridiculous things.

It would also be nice if the US government/IRS could pay back all its citizens when they get scammed by fake IRS calls. After all they could not have fallen for a scam by some rando had they not been a part of the system. But the fact of the matter is that not all entities can absorb these damages. I still do not see how the company is at fault. OP seems to blame her daughter’s use of her own personal device, as well as installing company software. What has this got to do with anything? Also, does OP expect the company to filter out all external emails? How does one do business with people outside the company then? I think it’s wise to slap a warning on all external emails but I honestly don’t think this would have prevented the OP’s kid from falling for this scam. [/quote]

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