Stefan Mileschin

Security experts say riff raff should not have access to all that sensitive data

More than 40 per cent of staff in British and American corporations have access to sensitive data that they don't need to complete their jobs, according to recent research.

A survey commissioned by IT security firm Forcepoint of just under 900 IT professionals, 40 per cent of commercial sector respondents and 36 per cent working in the public sector said they had privileged access to sensitive data through work.

Another third (38 per cent public sector and 36 per cent private) said they had access privileges despite not needing them.

Out of more than 1,000 respondents, just 14 per cent from the private sector thought their org was fully aware of who had access to all this sensitive data

Another survey carried out by the US Ponemon Institute, found that about 23 per cent of IT pros across the board reckoned that privileged access to data and systems was handed outlike jelly babies.

Access management is a critical topic for IT security bods, especially as COVID-19-induced remote working introduces challenges for the monitoring of data access and intra-org flows.

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