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10 Reasons You Can't Trust Employees

By Don Reisinger on 2011-03-10


With each passing day, the people working at your company are becoming bigger and bigger risks. They engage in activities that can potentially threaten the security of your corporate data, and they do so either without knowledge or without care. Our exclusive research on Enterprise Security Spending Trends reveals how much you're investing in security. But technology is only part of the solution. Realizing this, we’ve decided to take a look at some of the top things that your employees do with each passing day that might make you trust them just a little less. A growing interest in "bring your own technology" will likely further complicate your life. Most of the time, the infractions are non-malicious, often the result of human error. But in some cases, an employee’s actions are intentionally dangerous. Either way, the onus is on you to find solutions to protect your organization's most precious commodity: Its data.

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They’re Obsessed With Social Networking

As Cisco pointed out in its 2010 Annual Security Report recently, social networking scams will be used as parts of “broad plans, such as Trojan attacks” in 2011. Learn more here:http://tinyurl.com/4j7k8ug

They Download Unauthorized Apps

With the growing popularity of smartphones such as iPhone and Android-based devices, your employees are more likely than ever to download unauthorized third-party mobile apps. As Cisco said in its 2010 Annual Security Report, cybercriminals are expected to target people through third-party mobile apps in 2011. Learn more here: http://tinyurl.com/4j7k8ug

They Don’t Listen

Employees don’t necessarily take your security guidelines to heart. That sentiment was echoed in a report from Application Security, which found that 28 percent of enterprise data breaches are due to “management complacency or a lack of awareness.” Learn more here: http://tinyurl.com/4o4lecy

They Do What They Want On the Web

You probably have some Web filters in place. Even so, the threat you face from employee Web activity is great. In fact, the Annual Network Forensics Survey found that 96 percent of IT professionals believe employee Web activity threatens the security of company data. Learn more here: http://tinyurl.com/5vr5j3z

They’re Uninformed

A study from Cisco revealed that 24% of employees around the world are unsure if use policies for computers, smartphones, or mobile phones are in place at their organization. How informed are your employees? Learn more here: http://tinyurl.com/6btcdgl

They Just Don’t Care

Sometimes, no matter how much educate employees about security, the reality is they just don’t care. A study last year from Cisco revealed that 56 percent of employees don’t always comply with IT policies even though they are fully aware of them. Learn more here: http://tinyurl.com/6btcdgl

They Don’t Understand What You Do

One third of IT decision-makers believe employees view them as people that are “there to protect them if something goes wrong,” according to a Cisco survey. Learn more here: http://tinyurl.com/6jqwgho

They’re Going Mobile

A study from Ernst & Young found that 53 percent of IT professionals believe increased workforce mobility makes it harder to inform employees of security initiatives. Learn more here: http://tinyurl.com/63sfj7u

Some Steal

According to the book “Essentials of Business Ethics,” 75 percent of employees have stolen something from work in the course of their careers. There's a big difference, though, between walking off with a stapler and taking corporate data. Learn more here: http://tinyurl.com/679e34y

They’re Careless

Did you know that mobile workers are 5.4 times more likely to access dangerous content than those in the office? That’s what a Symantec MessageLabs Intelligence report revealed. Learn more here: http://tinyurl.com/5slj3wx

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