Employees widely ignore safe-use policies
Most American office workers have performed risky acts with e-mail, and the vast majority are clueless about it, indicates a recent Harris Interactive poll.
Sixty-one percent admitted personal use of office e-mail, 48 percent admitted sending or receiving junk e-mail with questionable content, and 22 percent admitted passing log-in information via e-mail. But 92 percent say they've done nothing risky.
Half had saved e-mail outside the corporate network, and the more they earned the more likely they were to do so.
Only 46 percent claimed to comply with the e-mail policy of their corporation, assuming they knew what it was.
Source: IT Compliance Institute
