One-Third of Employees Violate Company IT Policies

BaCa writes with a link indicating that a survey of white collar US workers shows that something like a third of all employees break IT policies. Of those, almost a sixth actually used P2P technologies from their work PCs. Overall, the survey indicates workers aren't overly concerned about any kind of security: "The telephone survey found that 65% of white-collar professionals are either not very concerned or not concerned at all about their privacy when using a workplace computer. A surprising 63% are not very concerned or are not concerned at all about the security of their information while at work. Additionally, most employees have the misconception that these behaviors pose little to no risk to their companies."

Comments

Re:I don't believe it

[Anonymous Coward]

Hell, I'd be happy if 1/3 of our employees could even name all of the IT policies they were breaking.

Lol

[jayhawk88]

Of those, almost a sixth actually used P2P technologies from their work PCs.

In other news, one sixth of one third of all IT admins are stupid enough to not block P2P traffic on their networks.

Re:Lol

[QuantumRiff]

And what percentage of the people the called actually responded to the survey? I would kick my users if I found they took time out of the day to talk on the phone about how they break policy (and security) over the phone to a stranger doing a "survey".

Re:I don't believe it

[vertinox]

Or they didn't outright lie, they just didn't even know they had violated company policies.

I don't know how many times a conversation went like this:

Me: Whats your user name?
User: Its u2343 and my password is "bobspassword"!
Me: Wait! ARRRRRGH! Don't tell me that! I'm not supposed to know your password, I just wanted your user name!

Re:I don't believe it

[Anonymous Coward]

Me: Wait! ARRRRRGH! Don't tell me that! I'm not supposed to know your password, I just wanted your user name!


Me: Sigh. Please change your password. Please don't share your password with anyone, including IT staff.
User: Ok, now I changed it to 'bobspassword2'.
Me: ARRRRG!

Re:When Policies are set by PHB's and you need to

[Anonymous Coward]

Easy. Add inflation to his sentence.

Re:When Policies are set by PHB's and you need to

[Otter]

"Today, a coffee cost $1.99 + TAX!"

And is that the phrase for the for the dental plan password, the diversity training registration password, or the office supply purchasing password? Or an older phrase for one of them, as each one needs to be changed (out of sync!) 6 times a year.

policy?

[bigdavex]

I'm not supposed to post on internet forums.

Re:I don't believe it - bofh handbook reply

[cumin]

User: Ok, now I changed it to 'bobspassword2'.

Me: Sorry, we can't both know your password, so I changed it.
User: To what?
Me: If I told you, then we'd both know it wouldn't we? yuk yuk yuk
User: [grumbling] Okay, I'll change it, but I won't tell you this time.
Me: Okay, it's temporary though, and will force you to change it when you log in, ready?
User: *sigh* ready.
Me: [mumble: random, okay] a;@#aslkdfQQQ$@$#%faWerrr@!!a;lskd1.

Nobody, but nobody leaves their password as the one I give them. Few tell me twice.

Re:I don't believe it

[Andrew Kismet]

She certainly didn't get permission to inflict COBOL, yet I hear no apology.

Re:I don't believe it

[Anonymous Coward]

Considering they hire people that can't spell "third" ... ;-)