73% of Healthcare Workers Report Security Policy Violations

DataMotion recently announced results of its third annual survey on corporate email and file transfer habits, revealing significant security risks. Here are some key findings from their healthcare respondents:

• 36% said within their entity, security and compliance policies are at most only moderately enforced.
• When asked if they thought employees fully understood these types of policies, over a third said no.
• Almost three quarters said employees/co-workers either occasionally or routinely violate these policies.
• 18.2% said policies were intentionally violated by employees to get their job done.

Source: DataMotion, March 11, 2015