{"id":31942,"date":"2018-05-17T12:13:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T04:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=31942"},"modified":"2018-05-17T12:13:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T04:13:43","slug":"employees-consider-passwords-the-primary-form-of-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/05\/17\/employees-consider-passwords-the-primary-form-of-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Employees consider passwords the primary form of cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly two-thirds (64%) of employees use a company-approved device for work. However, less than half (40%) of those who use a personal device are regulated when using that personal device, according to a new survey of 1,000 full-time employees published by Clutch<\/a>, a B2B research firm.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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New data from Clutch reveals the work-related materials employees access on company-approved devices. (PRNewsfoto\/Clutch)<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Employees use personal devices for routine, daily work activities. Among those surveyed who use a personal device for work, 86% check their email and 67% access shared company documents.<\/p>\n

“Normal,” or accepted employee behavior, often presents the most dangerous security threats, according to Randy Battat, CEO of PreVeil<\/a>, a company that provides end-to-end encryption for email and file sharing.<\/p>\n

“Employees believe that information that needs to be protected is special, sensitive stuff that’s explicitly marked and that most of the everyday communications they receive and send aren’t a risk for their organizations,” Battat said. “The reality is that the majority of communications and an organization’s intellectual capital can be found in the ‘ordinary’ email.”<\/p>\n

Passwords Are the Front Line\u00a0 of Employee Security<\/b><\/p>\n

Most employees use passwords as the primary form of IT security at their company. Over three-fourths (76%) practice some form of password protection, the survey found.<\/p>\n

In addition, password update reminders are the most common cybersecurity policy employees\u00a0 encounter: Two-thirds (67%) of employees receive updates, followed by internet restrictions (55%) and user permission prompts (53%).<\/p>\n

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Clutch survey data shows security regulations employees regularly encounter at work. (PRNewsfoto\/Clutch)<\/p><\/div>\n

“[Employees] get that they have to change their password regularly because it’s an obvious protection. There’s a responsibility about that at an individual level,” said Steve Scott-Douglas, CIO of Ciklum<\/a>, a software engineering and solutions company.<\/p>\n

Most employees, however, use the simplest method of password protection: regularly updating their passwords. At least twice as many employees update passwords regularly (82%) compared to using complex password protection methods such as multi-factor authentication (41%) or a password manager (20%).<\/p>\n

Employees Follow Cybersecurity Best Practices Beyond Company Policies<\/b><\/p>\n

In several areas of cybersecurity, employees exhibit secure behavior that goes beyond their company’s policy.<\/p>\n

For example, more employees report security incidents (60%) than go through cybersecurity policy or compliance training (59%).<\/p>\n

This finding indicates that employees have a general understanding of IT security threats and best practices. However, without regular training or communication from their company, they may fail to recognize when they encounter security policy.<\/p>\n

Most employees (52%) receive security policy training once per year, according to the survey.<\/p>\n

The study suggested that to ensure employees recognize and comply with security policy, companies should implement consistent cybersecurity policy training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nearly two-thirds (64%) of employees use a company-approved device for work. However, less than half (40%) of those who use a personal device are regulated when using that personal device, according to a new survey of 1,000 full-time employees published by Clutch, a B2B research firm. Employees use personal devices for routine, daily work activities. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":31944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6028,6027,286],"class_list":["post-31942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-clutch","tag-cybersecurity-and","tag-it-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}