A new survey on cybersecurity found that only 13 per cent of government employee respondents in the U.S. felt that they were responsible for securing their tools and data, according to CNBC.
“Uncovering the Gaps: Security Perceptions and Behaviors of Today’s Government Employees,” the report from YouGov and published by security firm Dtex Systems, was based on a survey of more than 1,000 public sector federal, state or local employees in the U.S. with security clearances. “Only 14 percent report being afraid of someone infiltrating their organization and stealing files, trailing far behind potential scenarios such as a government collapse or food poisoning, and ranking it just three percentage points higher than alien invasion.”
Although a certain amount of relying on the IT department is understandable, 48 per cent of the employees surveyed believed that they didn’t have any responsibility at all to secure their data, and about half thought that it didn’t matter, since being hacked was an inevitability.
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