Just 47% of corporations have cyber security strategy to combat employee blackmail, bribes to gain access to corporate information: report

The lion’s share of surveyed IT decision-makers at large multinational corporations may be aware that employees are being employed to gain access to information, but about half of respondents do not have a cyber security strategy to prevent such behaviour.

That is just one of the findings in Taking the Offensive – Working together to disrupt digital crime, a new report released Tuesday by communications services companyBritish Telecommunications plc (BT) and KPMG LLP. Findings are drawn from interviews conducted in partnership with Vanson Bourne with directors responsible for IT, resilience and business operations at major companies in the United States, the U.K., Singapore, India and Australia, notes a joint statement.

Specifically, the report found that while 94% of polled IT decision-makers are aware that criminal entrepreneurs are blackmailing and bribing employees to gain access to organizations, less than half (47%) admit that they do not have a strategy in place to prevent it. For the full article click here 

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