New Mobile Survey Reveals 41% of Employees Are Deliberately Leaking Confidential Data

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/markfidelman/2013/09/12/new-mobile-survey-reveals-41-of-employees-are-deliberately-leaking-confidential-data/

By Mark Fidelman
Forbes.com
9/12/2013

My congratulations and condolences to the nation?s CIOs for being 
responsible for data security. There?s now more job security but now 
there?s less information security too. Because, according to a new survey 
from uSamp , 41% of workers used an unsanctioned cloud service for 
document storage in the last 6 months, despite the fact that 87% of these 
workers knew their company had policies forbidding such practices.

Welcome to the mobile workplace. It?s less secure and loaded with risk.

And, according to the research, the estimated annual cost to remedy the 
data loss is about $1.8 billion. So what?s a CIO to do? On the one hand, 
it?s her job to help employees remain productive, but it?s also her job to 
secure the company?s confidential information.

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