Employees Couldn’t Care Less about Data Security
More and more employees chose to overlook data security policies put in place by the companies they work for and engage in activities that could easily lead to data breaches, according to the findings of a new Ponemon Institute survey. The risky activities include taking private records with them on unsecured storage devices, downloading personal software on company systems, turning off security settings and networking on social media sites.
Most members of a company’s staff copy classified data to USB drives or turn off security settings on their work laptops. Compared to the Institute’s 2007 findings, the numbers of those ignoring company policies has increased.
Here are some highlights of the survey findings, as presented by PC World:
- 69 percent of the 967 IT professionals surveyed copied confidential company data to USB sticks
- those who lost said USB sticks with confidential corporate data on them failed to report it immediately
- almost 31 percent of respondents engaged in social-networking practices on the Web from work PCs
- around 53 percent said they downloaded personal software on corporate PCs
June 19th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
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