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

Where would you like to spend you Cyber Awareness training dollars? - Hint - Employees who engage in the riskiest cyber behavior tend to be sales and marketing professionals, high-level executives and, most surprisingly, millennials.

This comes from Ahold, which operates 21 food chains across 11 countries and collectively employs more than 375,000 associates, conducts periodic internal phishing simulation campaigns to identify workers who fall for such scams, and uses analytics to interpret the results.

Schreiber said sales and marketing professionals tend to be cyber risk-pone because they're "very focused on the customer and just less focused on data protection." Millennials, on the other hand, tend to be more cyber aware, yet still engage in risky behavior, perhaps because they are too comfortable with the digital lifestyle.


https://www.scmagazine.com/supermarket-retailer-ciso-identifies-millennials-sales-and-marketing-pros-as-riskiest-employees/article/769950/