High-risk access exists throughout the workplace, in almost every job role, proving that the time has come for organizations to re-think the way they protect their workforce, according to CyberArk. CyberArk surveyed 14,003 employees in the UK, USA, France, Germany, Australia and Singapore to uncover workforce behaviors that security teams are most keen to put a stop to. Employees depend on privileged access to complete daily tasks These days, almost all employees have some kind … More → The post 65% of office workers bypass cybersecurity to boost productivity appeared first on Help Net Security.
You arent far from the truth.
In my experience it boils down to middle-management “tech-bro” types that still use norton antivirus thinking that if they just pay more money and install new software on top of windows defender everything will be fine.
When instead they should be enforcing multifactor authentication on the executives accounts.
But hey, I’m sure that executive that’s been given too much access since they “own the company” would be bothered if they had to reach for their phone one extra time a day.
That or janice from accounting that has 20 years of privileges handling payroll and keeps her passwords in an excel doc on her desktop labeled “passwords”.
But yes, a $20k a year subscription to an SIEM sold to you by some marketing guy will solve security needs. It just needs to build a profile on you and collect all your info! One more ai bot and we’ll solve tech security!
Hey look amazon shipped me a free item, i just need to open this pdf and give it admin access to retrieve it!