Artificial intelligence, bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies and application programming interfaces that connect disparate HR systems have brought important new benefits to the workforce. But the adoption of these technologies—along with a rise in sophisticated new forms of cyberattacks—also has created new risks to the security and privacy of sensitive human resources data.
A December 2018 study from Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research found that 55 percent of enterprise network security decision-makers reported experiencing at least one data breach in the past 12 months. Forty-four percent of the breaches were caused by employees who—intentionally or not—exposed sensitive data to hackers or data thieves.
