The main cause of data leaks in Russian companies is not hacker attacks or viruses, but failures in the operation of IT systems. socialbites.ca learned about this from a joint study between the online recruitment service hh.ru and the company Cyberprotect, which is at the disposal of the editorial office.
A quarter (25%) of survey participants admitted to experiencing data loss at work. In 45% of cases, the cause was a malfunction in the IT system, in a third of cases (33%) a malfunction of the device or software occurred, in a quarter of cases (25%) the employees themselves forgot the password or accidentally deleted important files. But in only 18% of cases, the culprit was hackers, or rather the malware they created.
The survey also found that the majority of companies (58%) do not provide information security training. In other cases, training takes place semi-annually or quarterly.
The top three ways to protect data from leakage include two-factor authentication (67%), restricting access to personal devices and accounts (63%), and careful use of personal data on social networks (62%).
Nearly a third (34%) of survey respondents create backup copies of their corporate data in case of a leak. About half of them (48%) download information to an external storage device: a hard drive or a dedicated server. The rest are copying by hand.
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