Survey shows 39% of businesses have dismissed staff for cybersecurity breaches during pandemic

New research involving 200 UK business decision makers by Centrify, who provide Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions, has revealed that 39% have admitted to dismissing staff members due to a breach of company cyber security policy since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak.

New research involving 200 UK business decision makers by Centrify, who provide Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions, has revealed that 39% have admitted to dismissing staff members due to a breach of company cyber security policy since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak. The survey also revealed that 65% of companies have made substantial changes to their cyber security policy in response to COVID-19 and remote working. Despite this, 58% said that employees are more likely to try and circumvent company security practices when working from home – indicating a fundamental flaw in the execution of security measures in a remote-working model. 57% of business decision makers revealed that they are currently implementing more measures to securely authenticate employees, including biometric data checks, such as fingerprint and facial recognition technology, and other multi-factor authentication steps when gaining access to certain applications, files and accounts. Also, 55% of businesses already have, or plan to formally ban staff from using personal devices to work from home.

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