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According to William Crowell’s famous quip, “the cybersecurity industry is a thousand points of light and no illumination.” And according to our new study, one of the darkest places in the entire field of security may be an employee’s downloads folder. In fall 2022, Kolide partnered with Dimension Research to survey IT, helpdesk, and security professionals about how their companies protect sensitive data-whether that’s private customer information, trade secrets, or the keys to the production environment. In particular, we asked what policies and tools they use to govern sensitive data once an employee downloads it onto their device. We found that most companies have neither the appropriate policies to mitigate risk, nor the tools to enforce the policies they have. |
