BeyondTrust, the worldwide leader in Privileged Access Management, today launched the 2019 Privileged Access Threat Report. In its fourth edition, the global survey explores the visibility, control, and management that IT organisations in the U.S., APAC, Europe and the Middle East have over employees, contractors, and third-party vendors with privileged access to their IT networks. According to the report, 64% of businesses globally believe they’ve likely had either a direct or indirect breach due to misused or abused employee access in the last 12 months, and 62% believe they’ve had a breach due to compromised vendor access.

In the UK, poor security hygiene by employees continues to be a challenge for most organisations. Employees sending files to personal email accounts, for example, was cited as a problem for 64% of organisations, while colleagues telling each other passwords was also an issue for 65% of UK organisations in 2019, which is a significant increase from 49% in 2018.

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