JANUARY 10, 2012
Many Young Workers Are IT Rule-Breakers !
( A case for firewalls & system thinking )
Research Finding :
Seven out of ten young employees who are aware of their companies' IT policies acknowledge breaking those rules with varying regularity .
Sample Size : a Cisco survey of more than 2,800 college students and young professionals in 14 countries.
The most common reasons are :
(a) employees' belief that they aren't doing anything wrong (33%),
(b) the need to access unauthorized applications for their jobs (22%),
(c) lack of enforcement (19%) from companies & academic institutions
(d) lack of time to think about existing policies (18%),
(e) inconvenience of adhering to policies (16%), and
(f) forgetting to adhere to policies , through aware of policies (15%).
Almost two-thirds (61%) say the responsibility for protecting information and devices falls on IT or service providers, not individual employees !
Source: Cisco Connected World Technology Report
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