Negligent Data Loss: Is Your Enterprise Invested in Employee Education?
Sixty-six percent of data protection leaders admit that employees are the weakest link in an enterprise’s security posture, and 55 percent of organizations have had a security incident or data breach due to a malicious or negligent employee, according to the Ponemon Institute’s report on Managing Insider Risk through Training and Culture.
However, only 35 percent of survey respondents say senior executives believe it a priority that employees are knowledgeable about how data security risks impact the enterprise, and 60 percent of respondents believe employees lack adequate knowledge of cybersecurity risks. For enterprises that do train employees, 51 percent of respondents say the basic training course did not require phishing or social engineering hack education.