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.
The internal threats still remain one of the highest risks for today's companies, and a a recent study by SailPoint proves why the administration does not trust its staff.
Η SailPoint είναι μία τεχνολογική εταιρεία με έδρα το Τέξας. Προέβηκε στην εν λόγω έρευνα και ρώτησε περίπου 1.000 employees σε ιδιωτικές εταιρείες στις ΗΠΑ, στο Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο, στη Γαλλία, στη Γερμανία, στην Αυστρία και στην Ολλανδία. Αυτή είναι η δεύτερη συνεχόμενη χρονιά που η SailPoint διεξάγει την συγκεκριμένη μελέτη, και όπως φαίνεται τα νούμερα ήταν ανεβασμένα σε σχέση με πέρυσι.
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 said they are using the same corporate access password for various company applications that work, which means that if a code is leaked it could damage multiple segments of a business.
Another strange phenomenon observed by the survey is that some employees will not even have to sell their own password because 32% said they shared their corporate password with other colleagues, so a rogue employee could very easily sell password and avoid criminalization in case of data breach.
It's also ironic that SailPoint asked employees for their input on data breaches involving their own data. As you'd expect, they wouldn't like it if they leaked it data their. 85% of employees said they would react very negatively if their personal information contained in the company they work for was breached by another company, while 84% say they are concerned about their sensitive data being 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.
