While security professionals are worried about targeted attacks against their company, IT professionals are not putting enough safeguards in place to defend against them, according to a new report. In many businesses, employees are allowed to indulge in risky IT security behavior even through it leads to data breaches from the outside.
About 60 percent of IT and security professionals in the United States, Canada and Europe claimed their main concern was being hit by an advanced persistent threat (APT), according to the Bit9 Endpoint Security Survey, released Aug. 30. Insider threats, such as an employee posting sensitive information to external sites such as WikiLeaks, were the second most important, at 28 percent.
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