With so much employee information now used and stored in software systems, it’s all too easy for management to regard employee data security as an IT responsibility. Protecting employee data and promoting data security in the workplace is actually a cross-functional responsibility. After all, many factors contribute to data security risks, not just technology.
According to a report published by the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Collat School of Business, 80 percent of organizations say that carelessness by the end user is the biggest security threat to their organizations. Employee data security involves far more than technical issues. It involves people, policies and processes.
