employees hold key to information security
Thu 27 Mar 2008
27/03/2008
| Employees hold the key to a company's information security, new research has claimed. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has released preliminary findings of its 2008 Information Security Breaches Survey, conducted on behalf of the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform. It found that companies wishing to tighten their information security have to first change their employees' working practices. "What companies are realising is that increasing security awareness is only part of the answer. The critical issue is changing the behaviour of their people," said Chris Potter, who led the study. "Only when behaviour changes do businesses realise the benefits of a security-aware culture." The research highlighted a 'click mentality' where workers access information without considering the consequences and an increase in social engineering attacks, where staff are targeted by outsiders looking for company information. Many companies have banned staff from visiting social networking sites, as it is believed to reduce profitability.
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