Security News > 2022 > October > Millennials, Gen Z actually suck at workplace security

It's just as you suspected: your Gen Z and millennial coworkers just aren't taking cybersecurity at work seriously enough.

According to EY's findings, 58 percent of Gen Z and 42 percent of millennial respondents said they disregard mandatory IT updates for as long as possible, something only 15 percent of boomers and 31 percent of Gen X admitted to.

Roughly one-third of Gen Z and millennials said they reuse passwords between personal and business accounts, something that less than a quarter of older respondents cop to, while nearly a half of Gen Z and millennials were "Likely to accept web browser cookies on their work-issued devices all the time or often," which 31 percent of Gen X and 18 percent of baby boomer respondents also do.

One doesn't need to look far to find additional evidence that Gen Z and millennials are damaging organizational cybersecurity postures - studies and stories to that effect abound online.

Tech services company NTT released a report in 2019 which found similarly that younger workers, classified as those under 30, were "Laid back about cybersecurity responsibilities." NTT concluded that age and familiarity with the digital world were less likely than knowledge and skills acquired at work for improving security behaviors.

The fact that a third of Gen X and around a sixth of baby boomers disregard updates, use work passwords for personal accounts, and accept web cookies equates to millions of workers with poor security practices.

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