Downloading Illegal Content Leads the Top 6 List of Most Popular Prohibited Activities in the Workplace among IT Staff

Zoltán Györk?, Business Development Director at BalaBit IT Security said: "Implementing an activity monitoring solution, which controls and monitors privileged users' activities, will  be inevitable in the nearly future, not only among the bigger enterprises however middle size organizations as then. Gartner recently published its "Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2012" and predicted* an increasing number of smartphones and tablets will be used by employees, also as the potential for broad, long-term impact of cloud computing in most industries. Both of these trends require a new approach to IT security strategies, one enabling real-time control of user access to the IT system, tracking of activities and the ability to report who had access to which sensitive content and what changes were made and by whom to mission critical IT systems. An activity monitoring tool helps companies passing compliance audits as then as protects the privileged users."

The IT staff

Unique situation of the IT staff: 92% of them would not object to being observed Because of this contradiction BalaBit's research as well examined how employees feel about implementing such an activity monitoring tool which can track all their activities in the IT system while work. Would they protest against a monitoring system, even if the success of the audit and business continuity depended on it? Or would they or rather support the implementation, even if it meant that their work was observed and every mistake and the responsible person could be reported? According to the survey, only 8% of respondents indicated that they would strongly protest against implementing an activity monitoring solution, the remaining 92% would welcome or - depending on the tool itself - would not mind. Why?