Security News > 2020 > February > Insider data breach survey finds directors most likely to break company policy
In the second global insider data breach survey, IT leaders found that 78% think employees have put data at risk accidentally in the past 12 months and 75% believe employees put data at risk intentionally.
At the same time, 58% of managers said employee reporting is more likely than any breach detection system to alert them to an insider data breach.
The survey also found that senior level employees were most likely to intentionally share data against company policy in the past year, with 78% compared with just 10% of administrative staff.
Directors are the most likely to take data with them to a new job - 68% did so when they changed jobs, compared with the overall average of 46%. The second annual survey looks at the causes, frequency and implications of internal security breach incidents and the perspectives of IT leaders and employees about risk, responsibility and ownership.
Even though some employees are unclear on who owns company data, 46% said they took data with them when they left to work for a new company, a clear violation of policy.
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