Most IT staff would steal sensitive company information, including CEO's passwords and customer details, if they were laid off, according to a new survey from Cyber-Ark.
• 88 percent of IT administrators admitted they would take corporate secrets, if they were suddenly made redundant. The target information included CEO passwords, customer database, research and development plans, financial reports, M&A plans and the company's list of privileged passwords.
• ...a third would take the privilege password list to gain access to valuable documents such as financial reports, accounts, salaries and other privileged information.
• 35 percent admitted to sending highly confidential information via email or couriers.
• ...one third of IT staff admitted to snooping around the network, looking at highly confidential information, such as salary details and people's personal emails.
• A quarter of companies surveyed admitted to suffering from internal sabotage and/or cases of IT security fraud.
• One third of companies believe that industrial espionage and data leakage is rife, with data being leaked out of their companies and going to their competitors or criminals, usually via high gigabyte mobile devices such as USB sticks, iPods, Blackberry's and laptops or even sent over email. (more)
