Recent research in the largest technology countries has shown that 20% of employees in a private company would sell their password at the right price. Half of them would receive a reward around 900 euros.
Internal threats remain one of the highest risks for today's companies, and one a recent study by SailPoint proves why the administration does not trust its staff.
SailPoint is a technology company based in Texas. He took this survey and asked about 1.000 employees in private companies in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. This is the second consecutive year that SailPoint is conducting this study, and as the numbers appear to have been higher than last year.
The answers given to this year's survey revealed that, at a global level, one in five workers would be willing to sell his company Password for the right price (last year the percentage was one in seven).
Worrying is the fact that some employees would not even bother to negotiate a good price, 44% of 20% (who said he was willing to sell his password) would not ask for more than $ 1.000 dollars (or 900 euro).
Also 65% of all respondents stated that they use the same corporate password access for various company applications that work, which means that if one leaks code could cause damage in multiple parts of a business's activity.
Another strange phenomenon observed by the survey is that some employees will not even need to sell their own password, because 32% said they share their company password with other colleagues, so a rogue employee could very easily sell the code and avoid criminalization in case of violation data.
It is also ironic that SailPoint has asked workers for their opinions on data breaches that contain their own data. As you would expect, they would not like it if they leaked their data. 85% of employees said they would react very negatively if their personal data in company data were violated by another company, while 84% reported that they are concerned about their sensitive data reported to them.
Now you know why a company's management classifies its employees as the most dangerous factor when it comes to data breaches.
