Dangerous: Every third employee solves IT problems without being asked
In companies, younger people report their IT problems to the IT department less often than older people. This harbors dangers, as they fail to recognize a possible cyber attack and unintentionally become an attack helper. Despite a lack of specialist knowledge, employees try to solve IT problems themselves. Almost six percent of those surveyed admitted to solving IT problems or incidents despite a lack of knowledge. This was the result of the current survey “Cybersecurity in Numbers” by G DATA in cooperation with Statista and brand eins. Another four percent of those surveyed ignore a problem with the computer in a business environment. Even if it's annoying: the ...