Security News > 2020 > July > The next cybersecurity headache: Employees know the rules but just don't care
Despite more awareness of the security risks of working from home, employees are still showing a lax attitude when putting it into practice, according to new findings.
Security firm Trend Micro surveyed more than 13,000 remote workers across 27 countries for its latest Head in the Clouds survey, which sought to understand individuals' attitudes towards risk in terms of cybersecurity.
56% of employees admitted to using a non-work application on a work device, with 66% admitting to uploading corporate data to that application.
Attitude towards cybersecurity has become a key theme amongst businesses during the pandemic, with the sudden shift to home-based working throwing up a multitude of new considerations for IT security teams , not least a surge in the number of reported email phishing scams.
In a survey of 1,000 furloughed employees in the UK & Ireland, 48% said they were not worried about finding phishing emails in their work inbox because they expected IT to take care of them.