User and Device Activity

According to a new survey released by the SANS Institute on behalf of IBM, 44% of respondents report that one or more endpoints have been breached in the past 24 months.

Right now, the average person owns 3.64 devices - smartphones, laptops, tablets, wearables or consoles - with estimates that we’ll hit 4.3 devices per person by 2020. We’re already seeing a shift toward a mobile-first society. Although not all of these devices are work devices, the average employee in the US uses at least 3 devices per day for work activities. To date, organizations have struggled to manage such...

If employees can’t access the tools and technology they need, they may take matters into their own hands. This is Shadow IT, and odds are it’s happening in your organization right now. In fact, it’s likely that there are 15 to 20 times more cloud applications running in your company than IT has authorized. Shadow IT is a by-product of mobility, gaining in popularity as more people began bringing...

In our report, IT Confidential: The State of Security Confidence, we uncovered some surprising truths about the Insider Threat. In particular, our report revealed that those tasked with protecting data, the “gatekeepers,” were often responsible for putting it at risk. The question, then, is Why are the IT ‘gatekeepers’ becoming ‘gatecrashers’?

One-third (33%) of IT managers admit to successfully hacking their own or another organization. Nearly half of IT managers (45%) knowingly circumvent their own security policies. IT personnel are not following the same security protocols they’re expected to enforce. We revealed these results today in our new report, IT Confidential: The State of Security Confidence, which provides insight into the attitudes, behaviour, and confidence levels of IT when it...