Inconvenient Truth about awareness training , Enterprise and Employees - Despite an increased focus on cybersecurity awareness in the workplace, employees’ poor cybersecurity habits are getting worse.

• 75% of respondents admitted to reusing passwords across accounts, including work and personal.
• 49% of respondents would actually blame the IT department for a cyberattack if one occurred as a result of an employee being hacked.
• Survey findings points to a workforce who are less committed to security best practices. 
• (48%) of respondents are currently using or planning to use chatbots and artificial intelligence personal assistants, with more than one tenth (13%) already using these in their organization to increase their work efficiency.
• Over half (55%) of survey respondents stated their IT department can be a source of inconvenience in their organization
• 31% who admitted that they have deployed software without IT’s help (i.e. ‘shadow IT’).
  13% of employees admitted they would not immediately notify their IT department if they thought they had been hacked.
• Enterprises are increasingly adopting software bots powered by robotic process automation (RPA), and granting them access to mission-critical applications and data, like their human counterparts.

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2018/11/14/poor-security-habits-are-getting-worse