Employee Security news and trends

Government Orgs Are 30 Percent Of Data Theft Victims
B2B Payments // April 10, 2018

High-profile and damaging payment data hacks in the U.S. are leading employers to limit their workers’ access to sensitive data, according to a new report from ACI Worldwide. The company released its “2018 Global Payments Insight Survey: Bill Pay Services” report on Monday (April 9),...

Swedish Firm Microchips Employees For Payments, Security
B2B Payments // April 05, 2017

With internal security threats leading to significant losses of data and money for the enterprise, businesses are tasked with not only safeguarding their systems, but also ensuring that their own employees aren’t going rogue. Businesses can do this in a multitude of ways — from...

Employees Working With Hackers To Steal Corporate Data
B2B Payments // February 02, 2017

When security experts discuss employees as potential sources of data breaches in the enterprise, it is often assumed that these security lapses are mistakes. But a new report is warning that, sometimes, an employee may be enticed to deliberately divulge sensitive corporate data to hackers....

Employee Password Reuse A Top Concern For IT Execs
B2B Payments // January 03, 2017

IT professionals say the reuse of passwords by company employees is a significant concern, reports said Monday (Jan. 2). A new survey by Gemalto found that 90 percent of IT professionals are concerned about employees reusing passwords they use for personal accounts in their professional...