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One in Four UK Workers Maliciously Leaks Business Data Via Email, Study Says (betanews.com)
From a report: New research into insider threats reveals that 24 percent of UK employees have deliberately shared confidential business information outside their company. The study from privacy and risk management specialist Egress Software Technologies also shows that almost half (46 percent) of respondents say they have received a panicked email recall request, which is not surprising given more than a third (37 percent) say they don't always check emails before sending them. The survey of 2,000 UK workers who regularly use email as part of their jobs shows the biggest human factor in sending emails in error is listed as 'rushing' (68 percent). However alcohol also plays a part in eight percent of all wrongly sent emails -- where are these people working!? Autofill technology, meanwhile, caused almost half (42 percent) to select the wrong recipient in the list.
Yup, I'm sure the company who sells software to monitor email systems will agree, your email needs our software!
Lets make up some funny stats to sell it!
First, this is an ad, not a news article.
Secondly, there is nothing to suggest the use of the word "malicious". If I tell my grandma how much we charge a client, it's sharing confidential business information, but I'm not doing it to undercut my company, I'm doing it to impress her. I'm not even sure who I would maliciously share business information with if I wanted to, nobody would care enough to listen.
People really should feel OK about some degree of retributive dissemination of confidential corporate documents.
It means that as the company has a gun to your head - do as you're told or you're fired - you have a gun to theirs - treat me properly or I'll cut you.
Of course it still has to be worth the legal consequences, but that too is good because it stops you from screwing over the company for petty grievances.
Not sure if that's the right word for this.
Maliciously = with intent to do harm
Intentionally? Yes.
The UI problem is still here to be solved. Any takers?
They're conflating deliberate with malicious, when the two aren't necessarily the same.
that those morons voted for Brexit, I guess it was autocomplete's fault or they were drunk as a skunk.
That just goes to show the importance and wisdom of including an 'undo' button in the Outlook e-mail client.
The author should really consider Hanlon's razor. The article minces "deliberate" and "malicious" as if they are synonyms, someone is far more likely to "deliberately" leak information without realising it could be used against the company they work for.
However alcohol also plays a part in eight percent of all wrongly sent emails -- where are these people working!?
Scotland, duh.
If you paid them to be loyal and were loyal to them. If you didn't throw them under the bus, or engage them to throw your customers under it, then MAYBE they wouldn't have learned that this was the right thing to do.
Just sayin'.
24% of workers confess an action that could get them fired. People may be evil, but they have room to improve.
I would have thought less than 10% of the work force has access to data that would even be deemed business sensitive data.
I mean, how much can the cleaner, janitor, cook etc. get access to?
These people are adults, and so they work in an adult company. Not a kindergarten that happens to pay the children for the work they do, mollycoddled by the state and their employer.
If someone wants to have a pint at lunch time, and is fit to do their job in the afternoon, then why shouldn't they be able to do so? If they go on to send the Paradise Papers out in the mail that afternoon, then they'll be dealt with for that act - if they were 'under the influence' and "the drink made them do it" then they should have thought about that before drinking it in the first place.
I think a great number of people are confused as to where "the land of the free" actually is.