Employees put sensitive data at risk in workplace chat sessions

Around a quarter of employees share confidential information via chat sessions, and a similar number talk badly about their boss, while 78 percent wouldn’t care if some of this information was exposed publicly. These are among the findings of a new study by secure collaboration platform Symphony which surveyed over 1,500 employees in the US and UK about their workplace communication habits. Other bad habits include 27 percent knowingly connecting to an unsecured network, 25 percent using a personal email to conduct business, 36 percent using personal computers or phones to conduct work, and 29 percent sharing work materials with… [Continue Reading]