Business security

10 Stupid Moves That Threaten Your Company's Security

Despite companies spending billions of dollars on information security technology, it turns out that the greatest threat to their security may be you -- their clueless employee.

Granted, employees' intentions are not always meant to be malicious, but, rather, it's often a case of boneheaded maneuvers, say security experts.

And employees, as a collective group, account for a wide swath of the confidential data loss at companies, according to a recent study. Of the 5,564 IT professionals queried in the Global IT Security Risks Survey by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, 73% were affected by internal security incidents. It turns out that employees were the largest single group that created this confidential data loss, accounting for 42% of the incidents...

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