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Relevant: increasing information security awareness of personnel
Valery Vasiliev | 04/04/2019
As Vyacheslav Borilin, head of the Kaspersky Automated Security Awareness program, noted, approximately 80% of information security incidents begin with human error. Unfortunately, employees remain the weakest link in the corporate information security system.

in last year's international study by Kaspersky Lab ecuador mobile database with this conclusion. The study, conducted by the company earlier this year, adds some interesting facts to the picture of the attitude of personnel toward information security.

For example, while 23% of companies do not develop rules for employees to securely store official data, 60% of personnel store confidential information (financial data, email databases, etc.) on their work computing devices. Of course, without the necessary instructions, they do this at their own discretion.

About a third of information security incidents are related to violations of information security rules for using IT resources by personnel. Thus, approximately 30% of employees do not hide the fact that they share logins and passwords for accessing their work computers with colleagues. A significant contribution (27%) to the number of information security incidents in small and medium businesses is made by data exchange using mobile devices.