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Employees Will Comply With Cybersecurity Measures Unless It Gets in the Way of Productivity

Thursday, April 20, 2017

According to a recent end-user security survey, 72 percent of employees are willing to share confidential information. In the financial services sector, the results were even more damning. Just over 80 percent of respondents said they would share sensitive, confidential, or regulated information, despite the fact that 65 percent of respondents overall said it was their responsibility to protect confidential data. "There is an acknowledgment by employees that security is important," said Brett Hansen, vice president for endpoint and data security at Dell, the company that sponsored the survey. "But their actions are not consistent with good data security.” One of the most glaring reasons for the rub is that employees think their organizational security measures get in the way of their day-to-day jobs. "So they feel responsibility, unless it gets in the way of productivity, unless it's not good for me," he said. "I'm embracing security—as long as it doesn't encumber me in any substantial way."

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