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22 Dec 2014

Employees going rogue with corporate data

Companies around the world have reason to be worried about the use of cloud applications to share mission-critical information.

In fact, 1 in 5 employees has uploaded proprietary corporate data to a cloud application, such as Dropbox or Google Docs, with the specific intent of sharing it outside of the company.

The SailPoint survey also found a clear disconnect between cloud usage across the business and existing IT controls with an alarming 66% of users able to access those cloud storage applications after leaving their last job. Despite that 60% of employees stated they were aware that their employer strictly forbids taking intellectual property after leaving the company, 1 in 4 admitted they would take copies of corporate data with them when leaving a company.

Key findings of employee actions around the globe include:

  • Employees who have uploaded a sensitive document to share outside their companies via a cloud application (such as DropBox, Box or Google Docs): Australia (11%); France (20%); Germany (17%); Netherlands (13%); United Kingdom (18%); and United States (22%).
  • Employees who have purchased and/or deployed a cloud application (such as Salesforce.com, Concur, Workday, DropBox, DocuSign, etc.) without the help of IT: Australia (14%); France (14%); Germany (16%); Netherlands (18%); United Kingdom (21%) and United States (24%).
  • Employees who are aware of corporate policy that pays close attentions to who is granted access to cloud applications with mission-critical data: Australia (24%); France (27%); Germany (28%); Netherlands (24%); United Kingdom (30%) and United States (29%).
  • Employees who were able to access corporate data via cloud storage applications (including Dropbox and Google Docs) after they left their companies: Australia (56%); France (70%); Germany (70%); Netherlands (61%); United Kingdom (61%) and United States (69%).
  • Employees who are aware of corporate policies against taking intellectual property when they leave their companies: Australia (68%); France (49%); Germany (58%); Netherlands (57%); United Kingdom (60%) and United States (61%).
  • Employees who admitted they would take any corporate data when they left their jobs: Australia (21%); France (24%); Germany (16%); Netherlands (15%); United Kingdom (26%) and United States (27%).

The survey was conducted by Vanson Bourne, an independent research firm, who interviewed 1,000 office workers at large companies with at least 3,000 employees across Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Axarhöfði 14,
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Iceland - 2015