Carla watched the staff at work. Dean Wilson appeared distracted, he was not focused on testing and the work was backing up. He had requested access to the computer system, beyond the number crunching and reading of displayed data. Several visits from I.T. confirmed he had access to all he needed. He did not need to enter results, copy or print the data.
The next morning, when Carla arrived at her desk, she was surprised to see Dean there, test results on screen and hurriedly writing down the values. Dean had discovered her login password and accessed data restricted to her terminal. He ignored Carla, treating her as a silly blond bimbo and closed the display on her terminal.
“Do me a favor Carla, print off the list of patients, their treatment and progress reports. I need to work on them and I find it difficult flicking through the items on the screen,”
A chill went through Carla, something was not right. Dean must know she had to justify any printing to the security department. Every page would have to be accounted for. Staff were searched as they came and went each day. Carla knew of a dozen ways to take out a wad of paper, undetected, so she assumed he would too.
“Sorry Dean, more than my job’s worth.”
“Job’s-worth is right!” He muttered to himself.
***
Henry had warned her that, with any test and results system, there are the original documents and computer data. The values from the originals are entered into the computer system so they can be manipulated to produce charts, predictions etc. Carla’s concern was that when the results went bad, the paper values and computer data would be compared. If she just tampered with the computer data, the tampering would soon be discovered.
Henry also suggested chemical contamination of the reagents and test cultures in the lab, or the medication used on the patient, would be much harder to verify.
The Organization were producing the fictitious patient records, so all she needed to do was skew the test results in a complimentary way. Henry explained the various ways a saboteur might tamper and contaminate. Carla used the advice to create the fall in beneficial results.
Dean Wilson was being pressed by management to keep to the testing schedule; the backlog he had created had been noticed. Carla believed Dean had not found a way to take a copy of the test and patient data from the computer, which was ideal at this stage, because the results were excellent. Now that Carla had introduced contaminants to the cultures, the results would start to swing the other way. It was this new data she needed him to steal.