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IT Staff Snooping Increases
Mike Sachoff
Staff Writer
2009-06-11
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More than a third (35%) of IT professionals now admit to accessing corporate information without authorization, while 74 percent said they could get around controls in place to prevent access to internal information, according to a new survey by Cyber-Ark.
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As the economic climate has worsened, the survey found a jump in the number of IT staff who said if they were fired they would take proprietary data and information that is critical to maintaining a competitive advantage and corporate security. There was a six-fold increase in staff who said they would take financial reports or merger and acquisition plans, and a four-fold increase in those who would take CEO passwords and development plans.
Approximately, 1 in 5 companies admit having experienced cases of insider sabotage or IT security fraud. Of those companies, 36 percent suspect that their competitors have received their company's highly sensitive information or intellectual property.
Organizations are increasingly aware of the need to monitor privileged account access and activity, with 71 percent of respondents indicating that privileged accounts are partially monitored, while 91 percent of those who are monitored admitting they are "okay with their employer's monitoring activities."
"This survey shows that while most employees claim that access to privileged accounts is currently monitored and an overwhelming majority support additional monitoring practices, employee snooping on sensitive information continues unabated," said Udi Mokady, CEO of Cyber-Ark.
"Unauthorized access to information such as customer credit card data, private personnel information, internal financial reports and R&D plans leaves a company vulnerable to a severe data leak with the risk of financial or regulatory exposure and damage to its brand, or competitors obtaining critically important competitive information."
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