More than half of employees have not received security awarenesstraining and as such are engaging in risky behavior that puts theircompanies at risk, according to EMA research.
|"Security Awareness Training: It's Not Just forCompliance" report of more than 600 employeesfrom organizations ranging from small businesses with less than 100staff to enterprises with 20,000 employees, found that 58% havecompany-sensitive information on their mobile devices and 59% storework information on the cloud.
|"People repeatedly have been shown as the weak link in thesecurity program," says EMA Research analyst David Monahan, whoauthored the study. "Without training, people will click on linksin email and release sensitive information in any number of ways.In most cases they don't realize what they are doing is wrong untila third-party makes them aware of it."
|Thirty percent of employees leave mobile devicesunattended in their vehicles, 33% use the same password for bothwork and personal devices and 35% have clicked on a link in anemail from an unknown sender.
|Small businesses of less than 100 employees account for thegreatest percentage–44%–of untrained personnel and make up 72%percent of untrained employees when added to organizations of lessthan 1,000 people. Larger companies have bigger budgets from whichthey can allocate more training, the report states, and as such,just 8% are untrained.
|The most common forms rating the training effectiveness aretraining completion (62%), and end of training testing (65%). Thereport recommends that training should be based on instructionaldesign principles, be interactive, fun and flexible for differentlearning styles, provide content that addresses security concernsand threats, and easily measured to demonstrate effectiveness andreduce risk to an organization.
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