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12 months after the Cyber-Ark “Trust, Security & Passwords” survey discovered that 33 percent of IT staff used their IT administration rights to snoop around networks to access privileged, corporate information such as HR records, layoff lists, customer databases and M&A plans, a repeat of the survey has discovered that the situation has escalated.

Despite a sharp rise in data breaches and increased media awareness on the subject, the third annual Cyber-Ark survey reveals that 35 percent of IT workers now admit to accessing corporate information without authorization, while 74 percent of respondents stated that they could circumvent the controls currently in place to prevent access to internal information.

Cyber-Ark’s “Trust, Security & Passwords” is a global survey of more than 400 senior IT professionals both in the US and UK, mainly from enterprise class companies.

An interesting article and results from the survey, it’s a mixed scenario, IT infrastructure needs locked down to enable people to do their jobs, but at the same time restrict access to unnecessary data, at the same time we need to trust our IT teams, and work with them to understand that accessing private data can not only expose the organization to operational risk, but expose them to work and legal difficulty.

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