The Real Threat to your IT Security

For many years, we have always said the real threat to your IT Security is internal users. Yes, that’s still true, but it goes further than that. The real threat is the user that accesses information they don’t need for their day-to-day work. Nothing really nefarious, just nosiness. A recent study indicated that 92% of people have tried to access information they didn’t need. Nearly one-forth of them do it regularly!

According to CFO Daily News, the biggest offender is IT pros (at 66% or two-thirds!), and they know better.

Be careful about accessing information that isn’t any of your business. Not only is it against best practices in most environments, but it can also be illegal depending on how much sensitive data is housed in your company. The best advice is to use access controls, but we all know that senior IT executives feel they are above the law when it comes to this.

One of the ways to counter this is to inform your senior executives that this is a huge risk and that they, individually, would have to answer to the public, shareholders, and possibly law enforcement, if there a hacker got in and data was stolen.

Make sure your environment understands the consequences of putting their noses in things that aren’t their business.

You can read more about this at “Here’s who the real biggest threat to your IT security is” by Jennifer Azara.

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