Beware Cyber Monday Addressing Online Shopping Risks
Approximately 96 percent of survey respondents believe that the average employee spends at least one to two hours shopping online using a work-supplied computer or a smartphone during the holiday season.
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About a quarter of respondents estimate that workers spend three to five hours shopping online with work-supplied devices throughout the holidays.
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Just over 30 percent of respondents believe that online shopping during the holidays costs their business at least $15,000 in lost productivity.
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Only a third of companies explicitly prohibit employees from using work e-mail addresses for personal online shopping or other non-work uses.
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About 43 percent of organizations allow employees to use mobile devices provided by the business for personal use, including online shopping.
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Just under half of ISACA professionals rate the risks to the organization from an employee clicking on an e-mail link to access an online shopping site from a work-supplied computer or smart phone as highly risky behavior.
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About 65 percent of these respondents believe that an employee using his or her work e-mail address as contact information for online shopping sites as moderately to highly risky.
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Fewer than half of organizations have a security policy in place that addresses online shopping.
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Only 60 percent of those organizations train employees about that policy.
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Just over 20 percent of organizations educate employees about the risk of online shopping but don’t have a policy.
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Fewer than 20 percent of organizations block retail websites for their employees.
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Only 6 percent of organizations provide a “guest” or segregated network and computing resources for employees to use for shopping and personal online activities.