{"id":47994,"date":"2022-03-02T09:48:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T01:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=47994"},"modified":"2022-03-02T09:48:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T01:48:26","slug":"half-of-employees-use-unauthorized-file-services-to-complete-work-knowbe4-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2022\/03\/02\/half-of-employees-use-unauthorized-file-services-to-complete-work-knowbe4-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of employees use unauthorized file services to complete work &#8211; KnowBe4 research\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KnowBe4, provider of the world\u2019s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced a new report from KnowBe4 Research, \u201cShadow IT Is Real\u201d, which revealed that shadow IT is a real risk for organizations with half of employees using unauthorized file services to complete work. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This research report examines the prevalence of two common insecure practices using survey responses from over 435,000 participants across global regions and industries. The first analysis covers the use of unauthorized cloud services to store information and communicate in the workplace. The second analysis reviews the prevalence of downloading content through unauthorized file sharing networks using work computers. Highlights from the findings include: \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Asia and Oceania are regions with worryingly high rates of both practices, while Africa is consistently the best performing. \u00a0<\/li><li>Finance- and technology-based industries are comparatively better than many other industries, while construction-, manufacturing-, educational- and government-based organizations are the poorest performing.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe findings from this research are very concerning because employees are exhibiting insecure behaviors that are putting their organizations at significant risk,\u201d said Kai Roer, chief research officer, KnowBe4. \u201cThe concept of shadow IT has a direct impact on the level of security culture exhibited at an organization. To combat shadow IT, organiations should focus on strengthening their security culture and increasing employees\u2019 level of security awareness. It is especially important for employees to understand and take responsibility for how their insecure behaviours can ultimately affect the organization\u2019s reputation and bottom line.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>To download the new KnowBe4 Research Report, \u201cShadow IT Is Real\u201d, visit\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.knowbe4.com\/hubfs\/Quarterly_Report_Q1_2022%20(2).pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.knowbe4.com\/hubfs\/Quarterly_Report_Q1_2022%20(2).pdf<\/a>. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This research report examines the prevalence of two common insecure practices using survey responses from over 435,000 participants across global regions and industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":47557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[286,7348,54,2103],"class_list":["post-47994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-it-security","tag-knowbe4","tag-security","tag-security-breach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47994","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=47994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}