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Fired employees would take with them password list, R&D plans and customer database
Despite a sharp rise in data breaches and increased media awareness on the subject, the third annual Cyber-Ark survey reveals that 35 percent of IT workers now admit to accessing corporate information without authorisation, while 74 percent of respondents stated that they could circumvent the controls currently in place to prevent access to internal information.
Twelve months after the Cyber-Ark “Trust, Security & Passwords” survey discovered that 33 percent of IT staff used their IT administration rights to snoop around networks to access privileged, corporate information such as HR records, redundancy lists, customer databases and M&A plans, a repeat of the survey has discovered that the situation has escalated.
One of the most revealing aspects of the survey was found in the types and quantity of information employees would take with them if they were fired. As the economic climate has worsened, the survey found a sharp increase in the number of respondents who say they wo... [ more ]
IT managers are overconfident in their ability to prevent data breach threats from zombie accounts
A global survey of 236 business managers from large enterprises – more than half from companies with at least 10,000 employees - reveals that 53% of IT managers are largely unaware of employee access rights to systems. This causes a proliferation of zombie accounts – accounts that remain active after employees have left the company. However, these same administrators say they have a high level of confidence that zombie accounts cannot trigger a malicious attack or perpetrate a data leak, despite high-profile evidence to the contrary.
The Courion® Corporation survey results reveal that while a vast majority (93%) of organisations are confident that terminated employees pose no security risk to their systems by virtue of legacy access, many have limited or no knowledge of the systems to which their active and terminated employees have access. This unwarranted confidence in system security leaves companies vulnerable to attacks that could cost millions.
Other key survey results inc... [ more ]
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