Corporate managers, more so than rank-and-file workers, puttheir companies at high risk of data breaches and intellectualproperty loss, according to the survey results fromStrozFreidberg.

“On the Pulse: Information Security Risk in AmericanBusiness“, a survey of more than 750 information workers inU.S. businesses, reports that 87% of senior managers frequently oroccasionally send work materials to personal email or cloudaccounts, thereby increasing data breaches, and that 58% of seniormanagers say they have accidently sent the wrong person sensitiveinformation, compared to 25% of workers overall.

Risk doesn't increase when corporate managers leave the company:More than 50% of senior management and 37% of mid-level managementadmit to bringing job-related emails, files or materials with themafter leaving their employers. About 20% of lower ranking employeesdo so.

“Insiders are by far the biggest risk to the security of acompany's sensitive information, whether it's a careless executiveor a disgruntled employee,” said Michael Patsalos-Fox, CEO ofStroz Friedberg.

Despite self-acknowledging that C-suite leaders are responsiblefor protecting their own companies against cyber risk, 52% ofsenior managers say they are failing at reducing cyber-threatrisks.

Bring-your-own-device workplaces also open the doors to hackers,malware and viruses. Corporation communication and training andmitigate that risk, but only 35% of employees at thoseBYOD companies say that they reciceved training on mobile devicesecurity from their employers.