Cybersecurity
Dusty Prodigy Accounts, Lost Tablets Put Company Secrets at Risk
- About half of board members use personal email for documents
- Almost a third of directors have lost a company device: Survey
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Even after high-profile security breaches at Target Corp., Facebook Inc., and Google, a majority of board members are still using personal email accounts to share corporate information -- and a third of them have misplaced a company-owned mobile device or computer in the past year.
All told, 56 percent of directors and 51 percent of C-suite executives are using personal email, rather than a corporate account, to send sensitive company information. That’s one of the findings from a survey of 411 board members and governance officials from 11 countries conducted earlier this year by Forrester Consulting for Diligent Corp., which sells software for securing boardroom documents.