New Cybersecurity Report from HP Reveals 91% of IT Teams Feel Pressure to Compromise Security
September 09 2021 - 6:00AM
HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) today released its HP Wolf Security
Rebellions & Rejections report, a comprehensive global study
highlighting the tension between IT teams and employees working
from home (WFH) that security leaders must resolve in order to
secure the future of work.
The findings show that IT teams have been forced into
compromising security for business continuity at a time of rising
threats. Making matters worse, their attempts to increase or update
security measures for remote workers have often been rejected. This
is particularly true for the future workforce of 18-24-year-olds –
digital natives who feel increasingly frustrated with security
getting in the way of deadlines, leading many to circumvent
controls.
The new HP Wolf Security report combines data from a global
YouGov online survey of 8,443 office workers who shifted to WFH
during the pandemic and a global survey of 1,100 IT Decision
Makers, conducted by Toluna. Key findings include:
- 76% of IT teams
admit security took a backseat to business continuity during the
pandemic, while 91% felt pressure to compromise security for
business continuity1.
- Almost half (48%) of younger office
workers (18-24 years old) surveyed viewed security tools as a
hindrance, leading to nearly a third (31%) trying to bypass
corporate security policies to get their work done2.
- 48% of office workers surveyed agreed
that seemingly essential security measures result in a lot of
wasted time – this rises to 64% among those ages 18-242.
- Over half (54%) of 18–24-year-olds were
more worried about meeting deadlines than exposing their
organization to a data breach; 39% were unsure what their security
policies say, or are unaware if their company even has them –
suggesting a growing level of apathy among younger workers2.
- As a result, 83% of IT teams believe
the increase in home workers has created a “ticking time bomb” for
a corporate network breach1.
“The fact that workers are actively circumventing security
should be a worry for any CISO – this is how breaches can be born,”
comments Ian Pratt, Global Head of Security for Personal Systems,
HP Inc. “If security is too cumbersome and weighs people down, then
people will find a way around it. Instead, security should fit as
much as possible into existing working patterns and flows, with
technology that is unobtrusive, secure-by-design and
user-intuitive. Ultimately, we need to make it as easy to work
securely as it is to work insecurely, and we can do this by
building security into systems from the ground up.”
The report highlights that many security teams have made efforts
to curb user behavior to keep data safe. 91% have updated security
policies to account for the rise in working from home, while 78%
have restricted access to websites and applications1. However,
these controls often create friction for users, who resent the
controls and push back on IT, leaving security teams feeling
dejected and rejected:
- 37% of office workers surveyed said
security policies and technologies are often too restrictive2.
- 80% of IT teams experienced push
back from users who do not like controls being put on them at home;
67% of IT teams said they experience complaints about this
weekly1.
- 83% of IT teams said trying to set
and enforce corporate policies around cybersecurity is impossible
now the lines between personal and professional lives are so
blurred1.
- 80% of IT teams said IT security was
becoming a “thankless task” because nobody listens to them1.
- 69% of IT teams said they are made
to feel like the “bad guys” for imposing restrictions1.
“CISOs are dealing with increasing volume, velocity and severity
of attacks,” comments Joanna Burkey, Chief Information Security
Officer (CISO), HP Inc. “Their teams are having to work around the
clock to keep the business safe, while facilitating mass digital
transformation with reduced visibility. Cybersecurity teams should
no longer be burdened with the weight of securing the business
solely on their shoulders, cybersecurity is an end-to-end
discipline in which everyone needs to engage.”
Burkey continues: “To create a more collaborative security
culture, we must engage and educate employees on the growing
cybersecurity risks, while IT teams need to better understand how
security impacts workflows and productivity. From here, security
needs to be re-evaluated based on the needs of both the business
and the hybrid worker.”
HP is helping organizations to secure the hybrid workplace by
delivering transparent and unobtrusive endpoint security. With HP
Wolf Security1 organizations benefit from robust, built-in
protection from the silicon to the cloud, and BIOS to browser. It
enables Cybersecurity teams to deliver user-friendly tools and help
to ease restrictions, while also providing defense-in-depth and
enhanced protection, privacy, and threat intelligence, gathering
data at the endpoint to help protect the business at large.
About the research
The HP Wolf Security ‘Rebellions & Rejections’’ report is
based on findings from:
- A Toluna survey of 1,100 IT decision
makers in the UK, the US, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Australia, and
Japan. Fieldwork was undertaken between 19th March - 6th April
2021. The survey was carried out online.
- A YouGov survey of 8,443 adults in
the US, the UK, Mexico, Germany, Australia, Canada, and Japan who
used to be office workers, and worked from home the same amount or
more than before the pandemic. Fieldwork was undertaken between
17th - 25th March 2021. The survey was carried out online.
- The 2020 Cybersecurity Threat
Landscape for Remote Workers as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic
report from KuppingerCole, conducted in March 2021. This provides
context and analysis of the changing work landscape in 2020 as a
result of the COVID-19 pandemic with attention to the activities
and practices of companies and employees globally, as well as the
activities and tendencies of malicious actors to vulnerabilities
that arose because of the changing context.
About HP
HP Inc. creates technology that makes life better for everyone,
everywhere. Through our product and service portfolio of personal
systems, printers and 3D printing solutions, we engineer
experiences that amaze. More information about HP Inc. is available
at http://www.hp.com.
About HP Wolf Security
From the maker of the world’s most secure PCs2 and Printers3, HP
Wolf Security is a new breed of endpoint security. HP’s portfolio
of hardware-enforced security and endpoint-focused security
services are designed to help organizations safeguard PCs, printers
and people from circling cyber predators. HP Wolf Security provides
comprehensive endpoint protection and resiliency that starts at the
hardware level and extends across software and services.
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1 HP Security is now HP Wolf Security. Security features vary by
platform.2 Based on HP’s unique and comprehensive security
capabilities at no additional cost among vendors on HP Elite PCs
with Windows and 8th Gen and higher Intel® processors or AMD Ryzen™
4000 processors and higher; HP ProDesk 600 G6 with Intel® 10th Gen
and higher processors; and HP ProBook 600 with AMD Ryzen™ 4000 or
Intel® 11th Gen processors and higher.3 HP’s most advanced embedded
security features are available on HP Enterprise and HP Managed
devices with HP FutureSmart firmware 4.5 or above. Claim based on
HP review of 2021 published features of competitive in-class
printers. Only HP offers a combination of security features to
automatically detect, stop, and recover from attacks with a
self-healing reboot, in alignment with NIST SP 800-193 guidelines
for device cyber resiliency. For a list of compatible products,
visit: hp.com/go/PrintersThatProtect. For more information, visit:
hp.com/go/PrinterSecurityClaims.
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