It companies are placing unwarranted trust in their employees, household members and third-party vendors, according to the latest Apricorn 2021 Global IT Security Survey.
The findings show that IT security professionals are concerned about the cyber risks brought about by remote work, with 75 percent putting COVID-centric policies in place, including the use of two-factor authentication (48 percent) and encryption of sensitive data (41 percent).
More than 60 percent of respondents agree that COVID-induced remote work conditions have created data security issues within their organisations, with 38 percent noting that data control during the pandemic has been hard to manage. Even with these data control concerns.
