Dell Technologies Research: Employees Become The Weakest Chain In Company Security

JAKARTA - Data and privacy are two important things that must be prioritized by individuals and companies.

Although many new technologies have succeeded in presenting cybersecurity solutions, there is no such thing as absolute security.

The more the times develop, the more intelligent and innovative hackers are in creating cyber attacks, as a result of attacks that will be more sophisticated on individuals and companies.

"Meanwhile, we are now living in a hybrid world of work where cybersecurity threats are no longer limited in the office environment," said Paul Carter, vice president, client solutions Group, Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ), Dell Technologies in a statement received in Jakarta.

According to Carter, when employees work from anywhere, sensitive data movements on edges, on cloud platforms and remote environments continue to change, meaning that the potential entry point of cyber attack experiments into an organization's IT (surface attack) system also increases exponentially.

"When sensitive data is stored in endpoints or a number of devices used by an employee, the data must be managed, protected, and taken from various traditional and modern applications from a number of data centers, various edge locations, and clouds," he explained.

Based on the 2022 Dell Global Data Protection Index (GDPI) survey, companies around the world are experiencing far more disasters, nature and modern, compared to the previous few years, resulting in more missing data, downtime, and recovery costs.

In the past year, there have been 48 percent of disasters recorded as being caused by cyber attacks, this number is up from 37 percent compared to 2021.

Another Breakthrough research result from Dell Technologies revealed that 53 percent of companies in Indonesia stated that employees are the weakest link in their safety approach.

In fact, after learning about a number of sophisticated cyber attacks, about 23 percent of employees admit their awareness and security behavior has not increased substantially.