{"id":3311,"date":"2012-10-18T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2012-10-18T07:00:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T15:00:49","slug":"security-data-breaches-more-often-a-result-of-workers-negligence-than-external-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/security-data-breaches-more-often-a-result-of-workers-negligence-than-external-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Security: Data Breaches More Often a Result of Workers' Negligence Than External Hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent Forrester report<\/a> finds that just 56 percent of workers have any idea about what their company policy is regarding computer security. \u00a0The report found that only 25 percent of security breach cases are the result of \u00a0attacks initiated external to the company. \u00a0Far more common, are actually incidents that are caused by employee negligence.<\/p>\n

Heidi Shey<\/a>, author of the Forrester report, said that\u00a0“Whether their actions are intentional or unintentional, insiders cause their fair share of breaches. \u00a0Other common sources of breach include loss or theft of corporate assets, such as laptops or USB drives, and external attacks that target corporate servers or users.”<\/p>\n

The report<\/a> also looked at the types of data involved in data breaches and found the following breakdown:<\/p>\n