Data security for any company is a big deal. This infographic from the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s business program (businessdegrees) provides us a solid overview of company security and how to help prevent it. A big issue is that 33% of companies in the US do not have a formal plan for responding to insider security issues.
Some of the top mistakes made by employees are not deleting information when that information is no longer needed, sharing passwords with others, leaving computers unattended, carrying private information on a laptop or tablet while travelling, using unencrypted USB drives, using personally owned devices that connect to the company’s network, and reusing the same password and username on different websites. In fact, 3% of full-time workers in the US use the same handful of passwords for 25-50 websites. Ironically, senior managers and business owners are the biggest threats to information security.
Tips on promoting security: have a written security policy, ensure physical access restriction to personal data, destroy old data when no longer needed, hold security awareness training for the company.
Infographic by: businessdegrees
Some of the top mistakes made by employees are not deleting information when that information is no longer needed, sharing passwords with others, leaving computers unattended, carrying private information on a laptop or tablet while travelling, using unencrypted USB drives, using personally owned devices that connect to the company’s network, and reusing the same password and username on different websites. In fact, 3% of full-time workers in the US use the same handful of passwords for 25-50 websites. Ironically, senior managers and business owners are the biggest threats to information security.
Infographic by: businessdegrees
