{"id":54135,"date":"2016-08-22T22:27:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T22:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=54135"},"modified":"2016-08-22T22:30:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T22:30:11","slug":"third-employees-leaving-business-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/third-employees-leaving-business-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"What Risk Are Your Employees Posing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>A recent study by <a href=\"https:\/\/duo.com\/about\/press\/releases\/more-than-30-percent-employees-put-their-companies-at-risk-of-data-breach-due-to-phishing-attacks\">Duo Security<\/a>\u00a0showed\u00a0a third of employees clicked on malicious email links, leaving the company waiting for an attack&#8230;<!--more--><\/h4>\n<p>Within this same study, employees were asked to provide their user name and password credentials and 17% of those who participated in the survey, did.\u00a0 So what risk is your staff posing?<\/p>\n<p>Employees require consistent cyber security training to be properly educated on what to look for in these malicious emails.\u00a0 PC Pitstop&#8217;s Vice President of Cyber Security, Dodi Glenn, made the following statement to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itbusinessedge.com\/blogs\/data-security\/employees-continue-to-fall-for-phishing-bait.html\">IT Business Edge<\/a> regarding the staggering number of employees who fell for the malicious emails,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Many people are simply gullible, and the hackers realize this. The more urgency they place on the phishing email, the more likely people will fall for them. Social engineering is an art, and the hackers are mastering it. Interestingly enough, we often find ourselves recognizing we fell for the scam, shortly after giving out information. 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