As employees grow more comfortable using new technologies, they could inadvertently be putting their enterprises at risk.
Indeed, myriad innovations have made it easier for people to do their jobs more efficiently, says Todd Peterson, security evangelist at One Identity Now. At the same time, they've also made it easier for them to "play."
"Employees can now access any websites, such as fantasy sports, gambling, entertainment channels, and collaborate and share information using cloud storage tools easily with a single click," says Sai Chavali, security strategist at ObserveIT.
But with all that know-how and tech at their fingertips comes a trade-off.
"Technologies are making it easier for people to do their job, but generally security is not at the forefront of people's minds," Peterson says.
Much of that has to do with security's reputation of getting in the way of digital transformation. Peterson cites multifactor authentication as an example.
"Because of added security features, a user has to login with multifactor authentication, and now the user has another hoop to jump through," he says. "Then we are back to the old days of technology being cumbersome and hard to do."
Often that leaves employees making a choice between doing what's right and doing what's easy. As the computing landscape changes and businesses move to a more dynamic, cloud-delivered, self-service model, the attack surface their security teams have to defend inc ..
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