Moreover, the study shows that 37% of employees use personal devices for work purposes, and more than a third use the same password for both work and personal devices. Yet, 80% of employees believe they have received adequate training. Meanwhile, 71% of executives are confident that they have deployed enough safeguards to secure their businesses, while 21% aren’t confident in their safeguards and 8% think their workers pose no risk at all.
According to Encore CTO Lior Arbel, firms treat cybersecurity training as a box-ticking exercise. Arbel believes that there is a gap between perceptions and reality that needs to be bridged immediately. He added that as threats continue to evolve, keeping pace with adequate training is hard. Other research has also found similar failings among workers, such as the prevalence of malicious links in emails being opened.
