The security threat of unsanctioned file sharing

  • 31 October 2014
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Posted on 31 October 2014. Organisational leadership is failing to respond to the escalating risk of ungoverned file sharing practices among their employees, and employees routinely breach IT policies and place company data in jeopardy, say the results of the “Breaking Bad: The Risk of Unsecure File Sharing” report by Intralinks Holdings and Ponemon Institute.

The research found that file sharing poses a major threat to enterprise security, and that senior managers at organisations are having difficulty setting and enforcing effective policies to safeguard against data leakage.

The report concludes that many organisations are vulnerable to both data loss and non-compliance due to cloud file sharing and improper file sharing practices – and it starts from the top down. Further, it is clear that the enterprise IT department has lost control of user application decision-making, as well as of company data.

More than 1,000 IT security professionals from the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany were surveyed. Key findings from the report include: Full Article

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