Gurucul leverages their fraud and security analytics in a new study, finding that digital security may be the least of an IT firm’s worries. Instead, a frightening 24% of 476 surveyed IT security professionals said they would take information from their current company to help them apply at a competing firm. Another major concern comes from third parties, with the study showing 74% of surveyed professionals increased security and tightened access because of breaches from third-parties.
The, “Workplace Behavior Survey” found that respondents saw third-party risk coming primarily from professionals who are managed service providers (MSPs) with 34%, while developers were second with 30%. When asked about fraud concerns, 32% surveyed agreed that fraud was most likely to happen in the finance department.
The research also uncovered a direct link between organization size and the likelihood of workers surfing the web for fun with larger organizations having a greater incidence. Social media sites are the most popular and 44% of respondents indicated they spend at least one hour per day on non-work related sites.
Craig Cooper, a Gurucul COO, commented on how some companies fight these numbers, saying that, “Since detecting insider threats by employees and trusted third parties is the ultimate game of cat and mouse, many leading edge security organizations are using machine learning to compare the behavior of all users against established baselines of ‘normal’ activity. This allows them to identify anomalous events and spot outliers so they can remediate threats early on.”
