45% of IT Execs Believe Workers Would Sell Corporate Data If Price Is Right—Study Says
45% of IT Execs Believe Workers Would Sell Corporate Data If Price Is Right—Study Says by UCStrategies Staff
BYOD, mobile devices, and cloud applications are scrutinized for the risks they pose to corporate security. Fifty-two percent of IT decision makers said that workers have read or seen corporate documents that they were not given access to, while 45 percent believed that employees within their organization were willing to sell company data if the right price was offered, according to a new study by SailPoint Technologies, Inc., an identity and access management (IAM) provider.
SailPoint commissioned research firm Loudhouse to conduct the survey of 400 IT decision makers at large companies in the United Kingdom and the United States.
It was discovered that 84 percent of enterprises now use cloud applications for their main business processes, while 82 percent allow their workers to use personal devices for accessing critical corporate data and applications.
Fifty-seven percent of the respondents said that they experienced losing corporate-owned devices that carried sensitive information. In the past year, more than half of the respondents disclosed that they were faced with situations involving terminated employees who attempted to access corporate applications or data after leaving the organization. In addition, 81 percent of the polled IT decision makers expressed concern about business users sharing their passwords across personal cloud and corporate applications to access sensitive information, while 46 percent said that they are uncertain in their ability to either permit or revoke an employee’s access to corporate applications.
Mobility and cloud computing have brought in additional productivity and cost benefits to business organizations. However, issues dealing with security and regulatory compliance have also increased during the shift to take on the fairly advanced technologies that enable the cloud and BYOD initiatives, according to the new SailPoint study. The findings of the study indicated that even though global enterprises are adopting cloud technologies and BYOD programs, no IT controls are set in place to handle them, thus increasing the risk of fraud, privacy violations, and theft.
The results of the new SailPoint study also uncovered that a troubling 41 percent of the polled IT decision makers were unable to manage cloud applications as part of their IAM approach, while 41 percent said that they have a process enabling them to automatically get rid of mission-critical information from mobile devices.
“There's no denying it, cloud and mobile technologies are becoming mainstream. But, as our survey indicates, enterprises are still catching up to the required levels of oversight and control they need,” said Jackie Gilbert, chief marketing officer and founder of SailPoint. “With our survey finding that as many as 59 percent of mission-critical applications will be stored in the cloud by 2016, the need for better management of cloud and mobile access is only going to rise.”
Meanwhile, Gartner, Inc. recently suggested a “design principle” and open-standards approach for BYOD. (KOM) Link. Link.