The cybersecurity awareness training firm KnowBe4 released its 2021 State of Privacy and Security Awareness Report detailing the appalling state of employee awareness and practices.
The report includes responses from 1,000 employees in small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and large corporations in the United States.
It attempted to determine how much cybersecurity training the workers received and the impact it had on employee awareness of common cybersecurity risks.
The report found that employees could not identify social engineering attacks, security expectations for standard and privileged users, and how cybersecurity risks could adversely affect their employers.
Employee awareness of cyber security risks lowest in government and healthcare
According to the KnowBe4 employee awareness report, about a quarter (24%) of workers believe that clicking on suspicious links or attachments carries little or no risk.
Similarly, less than a third (31%) of employees believed that allowing family members and friends to use work devices outside work hours is risky or presents serious risks. This practice breaks the human firewall chain and could lead to…
