Is the enemy within? In this year's seventh annual survey of 350 enterprise IT managers and network administrators commissioned by VanDyke Software and executed by Amplitude Research, those survey respondents who reported a successful intrusion of their user machines, office network, and/or servers cited the following primary causes or contributing factors to past intrusions:
- Lack of adequate security policies / measures (17%)
- Hacker / network attack (14%)
- Employee carelessness / negligence (12%)
- Unauthorized access by current / former employees (11%)
- Virus / malware / spyware (10%)
- Employee web usage (6%)
- Lack of software updates (6%)
- Software security flaw / bug (6%)
When the same question was asked in 2010, 6% of those who reported experiencing an intrusion had referred to unauthorized access by current / former employees.
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