A company’s greatest asset – it’s employees – can also be its weakest link, especially in an era wherein mobility and accessibility play a huge role in enhancing productivity.
Employee negligence puts an organisation in risk
78% of organisations have suffered from at least one data breach over the past two years and only 8% of organisations cited external attacks as the main reason for a data breach despite the growing concern with cybercrime.
Employee mobility may prove disastrous if not managed
35% of organisations cited loss of laptops or other mobile devices as the main cause of a data breach and 56% of the time, employees carry sensitive business data on their laptops, smartphones, tablets, or other mobile devices.
Employees do not report mobile data-bearing device losses
Only 19% of employees self-reported data breaches and 56% of organisations revealed that detection or discovery of data breaches is most often accidental.
10 Riskiest Employee Practices
- Accessing the Internet via unsecured wireless networks
- Failing to delete unnecessary but confidential information from computers
- Sharing passwords with others
- Using the same user names and passwords for different websites and/or online accounts
- Using generic USB drives that have not been properly encrypted to store confidential information
- Leaving computers unattended when outside the workplace
- Failing to notify organisations after losing USB drives that contain confidential data
- Failing to use privacy screens when remotely working on confidential company documents
- Carrying unnecessary sensitive information on laptops when travelling
- Using personally owned mobile devices to access the organisational network
3 Business Data Must-Haves
Data protection, to be effective, requires not only time and effort on the part of employees; companies need to do their share as well.
Data Protection Technologies – Only 43% of organisations fully protect their sensitive or confidential business information with data protection technologies.
Security Infrastructure – 64% of organisations need to re-architect their security infrastructure to protect against data stealers – hackers and malicious insiders. 62% of employees open attachments to or click linked embedded in spam.
Security Activities – 67% of organisations believed their security activities aren’t enough to stop APT’s or hackers. 60% of organisations don’t agree that their security activities thoroughly protect information assets from negligent or malicious insiders.
About IntelliTeK Pty Ltd
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