Employees’ lax security habits put their organisations at risk of losing data and intellectual property, and facing potential legal and reputational consequences, according to research from Microsoft. The study revealed that almost a quarter of employees admitted using personal devices or email to back up work-related data, which could have repercussions under GDPR. Meanwhile, a third of people had shared work-related material with personal contacts. Poor password practices were another area of concern, with 44% of employees recycling passwords, 22% writing passwords down, and only 16% having changed their password in the past year.
Employees’ lax security habits put their organisations at risk of losing data and intellectual property, and facing potential legal and reputational consequences, according to research from Microsoft. The study revealed that a third of employees admitted using personal devices or email to back up work-related data, which could have repercussions under GDPR. Meanwhile, almost a quarter of people had shared work-related material with personal contacts. Poor password practices were another area of concern, with 44% of employees recycling passwords, 22% writing passwords down, and only 16% having changed their password in the past year.