58% Of Wall Street Workers Are Stealing Sensitive Company Data

New York, NY (AHN) - A new survey found a whopping 58 percent of surveyed Wall Street workers would take company data with them if they thought they could get away with it and were losing their job.

IT security firm Cyber-Ark conducted the survey on the recession and its effects on work ethics by asking 226 office workers on New York City's Wall Street questions.

What Cyber-Ark found was that many workers anticipating being laid off are preparing right now by secretly downloading sensitive company data.

Topping the list of information that employees are stealing is customer and contact databases. Next on the list is company plans and proposals, followed by product information and even access and password codes.

Furthermore, more than half the employees now stealing the sensitive data are doing so because they say they plan to use it as a negotiating tool to secure another job.

Cyber-Ark recommends that companies take the following steps to protect themselves:

• Limit access to sensitive information to employees who absolutely need it
• Lock sensitive information in a digital vault, and
• Encrypt really sensitive data