SailPoint made a survey among US companies and presented some strange and weird findings. One of them – 40% of employees are ready to sell corporate secrets for less than $1 000. Some of the responders agreed to sell secrets for $100. And here are some other key findings of the research:
Poor password hygiene and negligence continue to plague the enterprise.
- The majority of respondents (65%) admitted to using a single password among applications.
- One-third share passwords with their co-workers.
- One in five employees would sell their passwords to an outsider.
Data breaches became personal.
- One-third of respondents have been impacted on a personal level by recent data breaches.
- 85% of employees would react negatively if their personal information was breached by a company.
- 84 percent of respondents are concerned that incredibly sensitive information about them is being shared.
Organizations are struggling to keep up, and are exposed in the meantime.
- One in three employees admitted to purchasing a SaaS application without IT’s knowledge (a 55% increase from last year’s report).
- More than 40% of respondents reported having access to a variety of corporate accounts after leaving their last job.
- 26% of employees admitted to uploading sensitive information to cloud apps with the specific intent to share that data outside the company
The research is available here.