What's Yours is Mine

Come WHAT'S YOURS IS MINE: The How Employees are Putting Your Intellectual Property at Risk IP Employees regularly take IP outside the com- 2 out of 5 download work files to personally owned tablet or smartphone pany and never clean it up One-third move work files to file sharing apps without permission Most employees think it's OK to use competitive data taken from a previous employer 49911 Half of employees who left/lost their jobs kept confidential information Future employers become unwitting recipients of stolen IP 40% plan to use it in their new job Employees think they own the IP 56% of employees do not believe it is a crime to use a competitor's trade secrets 42% do not think it's a crime to reuse this code for other companies 44% believe a developer Employees don't think their organizations care who creates source code for a company has some ownership of his work Half say no action is taken when employees take sensitive information against policy 68% say their company does not take steps to ensure employees do not use competitive info START OVER Continue To RECOMMENDATIONS A multi-pronged approach 1. Employee education: Let your employees know that taking confidential information is wrong. Make IP theft awareness integral to security awareness training. 2. Enforce NDAS: Make employees aware that policy violations will be enforced and theft of company information will have negative consequences to them and their future employer. 3. Monitoring technology: Learn where IP is going and how it's leaving your network. Deploy Data Loss Prevention technology to notify managers and employees in real-time when sensitive information is inappropriately sent, copied or otherwise wrongly exposed. Source: What's Yours Is Mine: How Employees are Putting Your Intellectual Property at Risk, Symantec in partnership with the Ponemon Institute, February 2013 Symantec. Ponemen