- 56% of companies say their remote workers actively bypassed security controls to obfuscate online activity
- 70% of the incidents included at least one attempt to circumvent a second security control to exfiltrate data without detection
- 72% of companies surveyed saw data theft attempts by a departing employee wanting to take protected IP with them
New research shows that the shift to an almost fully remote workforce has significantly changed the behaviors of ‘trusted insiders’ in 2020. In a series of interviews with hundreds of businesses across a diverse range of industries, researchers found a 450% increase in employees circumventing security controls to intentionally mask online activities and a 230% increase in behaviors that indicate intent to steal data.
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