{"id":45392,"date":"2021-06-17T10:27:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T17:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/?p=45392"},"modified":"2021-06-17T10:28:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T17:28:04","slug":"bad-cyber-hygiene-54-of-employees-admit-they-use-the-same-passwords-across-multiple-work-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/the-week-in-imaging-twii\/editors-blog\/2021\/06\/bad-cyber-hygiene-54-of-employees-admit-they-use-the-same-passwords-across-multiple-work-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Cyber Hygiene: 54% Of Employees Admit They Use the Same Passwords Across Multiple Work Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KnowBe4-image-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KnowBe4-image-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KnowBe4-image.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It appears that working from home causes employees to develop some very bad cyber habits, demonstrating that cybersecurity hygiene went from bad to worse mid-pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019d like to think we\u2019re just as secure while working from home. But a new survey from 2FA vendor Yubico of 3,000 employees, business owners, and C-level execs across the UK, France and Germany shows some disturbing cyber hygiene trends while working from home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the data, employees of all levels within the organization have been putting the business at risk:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>54% of employees admitted that they use the same passwords across multiple work accounts<\/li><li>41% of business owners and 32% of C-level executives still remember passwords by writing them down<\/li><li>42% of users are using their work devices for personal use<\/li><li>44% of business owners and 39% of C-level executives said they perform personal tasks while on a work device at home<\/li><li>Only 55% are more vigilant about cybersecurity while working from home<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And the most shocking\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>60% of employees say that they aren\u2019t responsible for cybersecurity and that IT should handle all defenses<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s this last one that really gets me. Organizations must establish a culture of cybersecurity to some degree, engaging employees to participate in the org\u2019s security stance. The largest (and easiest) role a user can play is by putting Security Awareness Training to practical use every day \u2013 that includes both improving cyber hygiene as well as being more cautious when interacting with email and the web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the expectation that more phishing attacks are coming, it\u2019s critical to put the user in place as a line of defense today. This will result in a far more secure user, environment and organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This blog originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/knowbe4.com\">KnowBe4<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that working from home causes employees to develop some very bad cyber habits, demonstrating that cybersecurity hygiene went from bad to worse mid-pandemic. We\u2019d like to think we\u2019re just as secure while working from home. But a new survey from 2FA vendor Yubico of 3,000 employees, business owners, and C-level execs across the UK, France and Germany shows some disturbing cyber hygiene trends while working from home. According to the data, employees of all levels within the organization have been putting the business at risk: 54% of employees admitted that they use the same passwords across multiple work accounts 41% of business owners and 32% of C-level executives still remember passwords by writing them down 42% of users are using their work devices for personal use 44% of business owners and 39% of C-level executives said they perform personal tasks while on a work device at home Only 55% are more vigilant about cybersecurity while working from home And the most shocking\u2026 60% of employees say that they aren\u2019t responsible for cybersecurity and that IT should handle all defenses It\u2019s this last one that really gets me. Organizations must establish a culture of cybersecurity to some degree, engaging employees to participate in the org\u2019s security stance. The largest (and easiest) role a user can play is by putting Security Awareness Training to practical use every day \u2013 that includes both improving cyber hygiene as well as being more cautious when interacting with email and the web. With the expectation that more phishing attacks are coming, it\u2019s critical to put the user in place as a line of defense today. This will result in a far more secure user, environment and organization. This blog originally appeared on KnowBe4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":45393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80,1650,82,3371,1638],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45394,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45392\/revisions\/45394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}