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:In soviet Amerika, policy violates you!

[iknownuttin]

If my installing linux or using an "unapproved" email client upsets someone in IT, that's because THEY are in the wrong not me. I'm not responsible for someone else's shortshighted policies, in fact I have a civic duty to violate them in the most flagrant and obvious way, to shed light on their stupidity.

You still have a job?

Re:What they don't say

[Rakishi]

Oh? Every dev at my company, thousands of them, has admin/root access to their machines and dev servers (su to be exact for the servers). There are very few problems and everything works quite nicely.

I guess my company not hiring $5/hour retards who dropped out of middle school to do their dev work may explain why there are so few problems.