4 out of 10 Employees Accidentally Found Coworkers’ Salary at Work
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In the latest Kaspersky Lab’s survey, almost four-in-ten employees (37%) admitted to accidentally accessing confidential information about their colleagues, such as salary and bonus information.
Payroll data is just one instance of the sensitive personal information that stays on organisations’ servers today. If leaked in public due to bad security, it can not only ruin team spirit but also lead to more drastic outcomes such as possible cyber attacks and lawsuits from affected employees.
The importance of handling sensitive information
One of the factors that may affect work files being accessed by unauthorised people is that less than half (43%) of employees regularly check and revise the access rights for shared documents or collaboration work services that they use.
Whenever someone resigns from the company or transits to another department within the same organisation, it’s important that they have their access revoked instantly. Otherwise, it creates risks for the organisation and for the people working in it.
This is part of a greater issue named ‘digital clutter’ which stands for the uncontrolled proliferation and sharing of working files and documents that are kept without basic precautions.
The lack of procedures and policies in place to monitor the digital order may lead to a blurred responsibility and general indifference among employees about the flow of documents, inside and outside the organisation.
According to the survey, only a third of employees (29%) knows exactly what is saved in each shared document or collaboration work services they access.
“In most cases, working in an office today means working with sensitive and personal data. In order to protect themselves from related risks, businesses should start paying attention to security awareness, protection and policies.
"Employees, from regular ones to IT specialists, need to know how to use services for file sharing, collaborative work, how to encrypt important documents and how to recognise a phishing email. There are solutions and services in the market that can help with this,” Dmitry Aleshin, VP, Product Marketing at Kaspersky Lab commented.
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Source: Kaspersky