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Cybersecurity Education Efforts Yielding Results | |
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 11:21:13 AM | |
LONDON – July 19, 2016 – Cybersecurity education efforts are yielding results, with 61 percent of respondents to a survey conducted by Palo Alto Networks saying they would speak with IT before introducing new devices onto a corporate network or adding business applications and tools onto unsecured devices. With more than 25% of identified attacks in enterprises expected to involve IoT by 2020, [1] – and many expected to enter the workplace – this survey finding represents a significant step in the right direction and demonstrates that employees’ knowledge and understanding of their role in cybersecurity is improving. However, the contrasting findings from this survey of business managers – who typically have the salary and tendency to be early adopters of new technology – are that 39 percent would fly under IT’s radar. This leaves a large margin for risk. Further still, of the group that doesn’t go to IT, one in every eight would “not tell anyone” about bringing a new device into an organisation or installing corporate tools, such as email, onto unsecured devices. Attitude Impacts AdherenceThe survey found that adherence to cybersecurity policies, such as those around the introduction of a new device, is largely guided by personal attitudes and views toward technology. Of those who have circumvented their company’s cybersecurity policy in the past, the prevailing reason for doing so was that they wanted to use a more efficient tool or service, or one that was considered to be the best in the market. Companies need to enable, not limit, employee choices, using technology and education to manage risk. Temporary Employees Require Full-time SupervisionContractors were the group most often seen to be bypassing company guidelines on cybersecurity, with 16 percent of respondents saying they had seen a temporary employee circumvent policies. Quote
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Download “Preventing the Blocks to Cybersecurity in Business” at: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/resources/research/preventing-blocks-to-cybersecurity-in-business Research MethodologyThe survey was conducted online among 765 business decision-makers in companies with 1,000+ employees in the U.K., Germany, France, the Netherlands and Belgium by Redshift Research in October 2015. |