In today's digital workplace, e-policies that touch the worlds of e-mail, the Internet, social networks and the like are commonplace. But do employees really understand what they should and shouldn't be doing?
A recent study by Clearswift, a Reading, U.K.-headquartered information-security firm, suggests the answer may often be "no."
In the study of roughly 2,000 office workers, nearly three-quarters (74 percent) of the respondents said they feel "confident" that they understand their company's Internet and e-mail policies. But when asked about the e-policy training they've received, more than one-third (38 percent) said they hadn't received any IT-security training since joining their companies.
"If you put these figures in the context of technologies such as social media and Web 2.0, these figures are pretty alarming," says Andrew Wyatt, chief operating officer for Clearswift. "The pace in which technology moves forward means you can't conduct training every three or four years. You need to do it on a more regular basis, at least every 12 months."
Other experts say the training should be even more frequent.
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Source: hreonline.com
By: David Shadovitz
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