{"id":5131,"date":"2015-01-19T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2014-12-12T11:17:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T19:17:37","slug":"security-employee-access-to-data-too-often-far-exceeds-what-they-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/security-employee-access-to-data-too-often-far-exceeds-what-they-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Security: Employee Access to Data Too Often Far Exceeds What They Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

Employees today often have access to information in their organizations that goes way beyond really what they need to be able to see. \u00a0A Ponemon survey<\/a>\u00a0sponsored by Varonis\u00a0found that to be true across 71 percent of organizations. \u00a0And only 22 percent of employees thought that their organizations were really making an effort to protect company data.<\/p>\n

Dr Larry Ponemon<\/a>, chairman and founder of The Ponemon Institute, said that<\/a> “employees commonly have too much access to data, beyond what they need to do their jobs, and when that access is not tracked or audited, an attack that gains access to employee accounts can have devastating consequences.”<\/p>\n

Other results from the Ponemon study include:<\/p>\n