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A new survey carried out by the research operation of security vendor KnowBe4 has found that nearly a quarter of employees are unsure whether the information they are working with is confidential or not.
The international survey with more than 400,000 respondents found 24% were unsure whether the information they are working with is confidential or not. That means they don t know whether or not they can safely share it with people outside the organisation risks leaking out, without the employees being aware of the hazard.
This indicates poor training and follow-up by management, according to KnowBe4 research director Kai Roer.
KnowBe4 Research Launches 2021 Security Culture Report
Best performers for security culture are the Banking and Financial Services industries and the worst performers were from Education and Construction
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TAMPA BAY, Fla., April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ KnowBe4, the provider of the world s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced that its research arm, KnowBe4 Research, has launched the 2021 Security Culture Report. Security culture involves how people think about and approach a more secure environment and this report focuses on those key elements.
The 2021 Security Culture Report more than doubled the sample size from the 2020 report, with more than 320,000 employees in 1,872 organizations around the world. Results from this year s report revealed a large gap between the best performers and the poor performers when it comes to security culture. The best performers were from Banking