Thirty-five percent of companies believe that their organisation's sensitive information has been given to competitors, according to a new survey.
Cyber-Ark Software's "Trust, Security and Passwords" global survey also found that 37 percent of IT professionals surveyed cited former employees as the mostly likely source of this loss.
The IT security company questioned more than 400 senior IT administrators in the UK and US in the spring of 2010 for the fourth annual survey.
The survey found that the most popular sensitive information to be shared with competitors was the customer database (26 percent) and R&D plans (13 percent). (more)
