The Biggest Threat to Your Company’s Security

You and your employees could be the biggest security threat to your organization’s data. Confirming earlier research, a recent study by Ponemon Institute, sponsored by IronKey, has identified that the main threat to your company’s security isn’t viruses or attacks against your server, storage and network but is instead, your own employees.
While not malicious in their intent, many employees are opting to do their jobs the easiest and fastest way possible, even when that means cutting corners and disregarding policy. From downloading data onto unsecured mobile devices, sharing passwords, to using web-based personal email and social networking sites in the office – employees are putting companies at risk.

Specific percentages of the ways data integrity is being compromised are as follows:

• 61% download data onto unsecured mobile devices
• 47% share passwords
• 43% loose data-bearing devices
• 21% turn off their mobile devices and/or security tools
• 52% use Web-based personal email in the office
• 53% download Internet software onto the organizations devices
• 31% engage in online social networking while in the workplace

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