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Clueless Business Leaders Underestimate Power of IT

By Don Reisinger on 2011-08-04


In your workplace, you undoubtedly deal with top-level executives who want to get the most out of the technology in your workplace. The only trouble is, in many cases, those executives don’t know the limitations that govern your position nor how you have to put together all the many working parts to get your company ready to go with its IT. A survey conducted by Lieberman Software, a vendor of identity management and security management solutions, reveals that, for the most part, senior business executives don’t fully understand the true nature of IT’s role in the workplace. They also appear to have no clue about how much power IT professionals have when it comes to data access. The 2011 Survey of IT Professionals was conducted by Lieberman Software and received responses from nearly 500 IT professionals who attended the RSA Security 2011 in San Francisco and InfoSec 2011 in London. Here are 11 scary factoids from the research.

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42 percent

42 percent of respondents say they can gain unauthorized access to their companies’ private documents.

39 percent

39 percent of respondents say that their senior executives know nothing about what their own IT employees can and cannot access.

31 percent

Among those respondents who are fearful of losing their jobs, 31 percent say they would take sensitive data with them to their next position.

18 percent

Among those respondents who feel secure in their positions, only 18 percent say that they would take sensitive information with them.

22 percent

22 percent of U.S. respondents are worried about their job security.

33 percent

In the U.K., one-third of respondents are worried about their job security.

Size Matters

31 percent of respondents working in companies with fewer than 1,000 employees are concerned about job stability.

Bigger is Better

In companies with more than 1,000 employees, only 20 percent of respondents say that they have concerns about the security of their jobs.

85 percent

85 percent of U.K. respondents say that it “would be easy” for them to take sensitive information with them to another position.

76 percent

76 percent of U.S. respondents say that walking off with sensitive information would be “easy.”

9 percent

9 percent of U.S. respondents admit that they have used their technical knowledge to unearth information on whether or not their jobs, or those of their colleagues, were at risk.

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