One in 12 workers would "happily" share sensitive corporate information with a friend at a rival company, and half of those surveyed say their company would never know if they swiped confidential data.
This is according to an annual poll by security company Websense. The survey of 100 employees in the United Kingdom showed that 51% polled thought it would be "very unlikely" their companies would realize or have the facilities to monitor whether critical data had been wrongly or accidentally distributed outside the company. And one in 10 admitted to accidentally sending out sensitive company information via e-mail.
And if those statistics don't scare your corporate security division, Websense suggests this one will: Some of the security incidents that employees fessed up to weren't accidental....