First ever security research on large public sector and commercial organisations across the island of Ireland reveals poor employee habits that could increase data breaches and security risks.
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Key research highlights:
- A massive 44% of public and private sector employees in Ireland have experienced problems with phishing, hacking, cyber fraud or other cyberattacks, this does not include attacks that were already caught by their company’s own security measures.
- 46% of employees admit to having had no security training in the last 12 months.
- 22% admit to writing down their passwords and 44% recycle their personal passwords, potentially using the same passwords for both work and home.
- 62% would welcome biometric verification.
- Half of employees prefer their home to their work device while 24% of those working from home have accidently shared work-related material with friends and family.
- 36% have plugged a non-work USB drive or data device into their work device, posing serious data and intellectual property loss.
- One third are using personal email for work-related or customer information storage, risking GDPR violations when leaving the organisation.
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