Today's recession-stressed workers may still be taking vacations, but a recent study shows that many take work laptops and smart phones along, putting them at increasing risk for data breaches.
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According to a recent survey by CREDANT Technologies, 65 percent of respondents who planned to take a summer break overseas will remain in contact with the office, check work e-mail accounts and text to ensure things stay on track during their absence, and almost half will do so at least once a day.
Although this survey was conducted with London city workers, CREDANT conducted a straw poll among office workers in both San Francisco and New York for comparison, and results were similar in the U.S., and, if anything, suggested a slightly higher percentage of American vacationers are working while away.
Other study findings include:
- 64 percent will take a laptop abroad; 66 percent of these laptops will be unencrypted and 51 percent left totally unsecure without even a password for protection
- 65 percent will remain in contact with the office, and nearly 50 percent will check e-mails at least once a day
- 57 percent blame the current economic climate for being a work "junkie"
- 58 percent worry about the security of data they'll take with them.
