Employees—not cyber-criminals—pose the biggest threat to companies today when it comes to data breaches and data loss, according to a recent report.
The study of 1,100 IT security professionals from the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany conducted by the Ponemon Institute shines a spotlight on the escalating risk posed by ungoverned file-sharing practices among employees. According to the report, 61 percent of respondents confessed to engaging in at least one of the following practices on a regular basis:
