Three out of five of the 614 U.S.-based corporate IT security experts who were surveyed in March 2022 said that their own organizations had “experienced data loss or exfiltration caused by an employee mistake on email in the previous 12 months.
Despite email interactions having been the digital channel with the most longevity and familiarity for most employees — including, arguably, those in the financial industry — roughly two-thirds (65%) of IT security professionals from various sectors said that email has remained the riskiest channel for data loss in organizations. Email was seen as potentially less secure even than cloud file-sharing services, found to be risky by 62% of respondents, or instant messaging platforms (57%).
“What stands out is that 68% of data loss incidents were not due to active malice by employees”
By Karen Hoffman, SC Media
Full Article: https://www.scmagazine.com/analysis/email-security/employees-email-still-drives-most-of-the-data-loss-at-organizations