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: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!