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Most information technology (IT) experts are very much unnerved by cyber criminals, says the biggest study involving surveys of IT professionals in mid-sized businesses.
Here is an executive summary and a full report of the survey’s results.
A second study as well revealed high anxiety among mid-size business IT professionals.
The above study is supported by this study.
The first (biggest) study above showed that about 50% of C-level management actually admitted that it was their responsibility to take the helm of improving security.
And about half of lower level employees believed that IT security staff should take the responsibility—and that they themselves, along with higher management, should be exempt.
The survey size in these studies was rather small. How a question is worded can also influence the appearance of findings. Nevertheless, a common thread seems to have surfaced: universal concern, and universal passing the buck. It’s kind of like littering the workplace but then thinking, “Oh, no problem, the custodian will mop it up.”
IT professionals are only as good as their weakest link: the rest of the employees who refuse to play a role in company security will bring down the ship.
Robert Siciliano is an Identity Theft Expert to AllClearID. He is the author of 99 Things You Wish You Knew Before Your Identity Was Stolen See him knock’em dead in this identity theft prevention video. Disclosures.