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Why personal employee information leakage is the least disclosed type of breach

by Yinka Okeowo
January 18, 2022
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A new report has unveiled that while organisations regularly face employee information leakage, a good number of them prefer not to disclose these incidents publicly.

The Kaspersky Employee Wellbeing 2021 report on employee information leakage shows that 36% of respondents from the META region alluded to this.  At the same time, staff may lack basic cybersecurity knowledge to protect themselves as only 38% of businesses offer IT security training.

A successful corporate cyber-defense is impossible without employees at all levels joining forces. Technology is important to prevent cyberattacks but human factors still play a crucial role, being tied to 85% of incidents.

Kaspersky’s global survey of IT business decision-makers provides insights into how well organisations and workers collaborate and protect themselves, their clients and each other.

Despite high-profile cases of data breaches being mainly associated with stealing customer information, personal employee data is very popular with cybercriminals as well.

In 2021, more than a third (33%) of organisations weren’t able to provide complete security of their workers’ data and faced incidents involving this type of information.

The fact that 36% of affected organisations haven’t disclosed a breach of personal employee data publicly is a sign that the problem is bigger than it seems.

As for the rest, 57% have shared information about an incident proactively and 8% did so after it has been leaked to the media. This shows that this type of leak is the least frequently disclosed, compared to corporate or customer data breaches.

“When an organisation faces a cyber-incident, correct crisis communications are no less important than response and recovery actions. There are ever-present risks of data breaches, and businesses should acknowledge that proactive disclosure is preferable to an exposé in the press,” comments Evgeniya Naumova, executive vice president, Corporate Business, at Kaspersky. “Appropriate, accurate, and timely communications however, not only minimise the potential reputational damage but can also greatly mitigate direct financial losses.

“To avoid panic or confusion, a company needs to consider developing a clear crisis plan and train employees in advance.

“Corporate communications professionals and IT security teams should collaborate to exchange information on cybersecurity insights and determine guides, tools, channels, and language that might be helpful to accurately handle both internal and external communications in case of an emergency,” she continues.

Lack of external knowledge about potential cybersecurity incidents is not usually mitigated by internal efforts.

According to the research, only 38% of organisations have already implemented security education and training to ensure that employees are provided with crucial information.

In addition, more than seven in ten (76%) of those companies have experienced at least one issue relating to the quality of these services.

This includes dissatisfaction with the high complexity of courses and a lack of support or expertise on the part of the training provider.

Employees that had not been provided with basic knowledge about the importance of protective measures, can’t be expected to follow the rules.

In 2021, compliance of staff and dealing with insufficient end-user security culture is one of the top three biggest concerns for businesses when it comes to IT security – 38% of respondents cited it among the most alarming issues.

In practice, companies regularly face informational security infringements (50%), inappropriate IT resource use (53%), and improper sharing of data via mobile devices (50%).

Breach prevention requires concerted action by everyone who interacts with a corporate system and could be a potential target for attackers.

To better secure employees, companies should combine reliable protective measures with maintaining security awareness among their teams

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