Centrify warns against ignoring ‘security fatigue’

Centrify’s Senior Director APAC Sales Niall King said ‘security fatigue’ was a form of decision fatigue that caused individuals and employees to take greater risks in their security behaviours online. “A recent study from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology found that most interviewees reported that security fatigue often led them to risky computing behaviour at work and at home,” he said.

“Because we’re bombarded by an unrelenting onslaught of security decisions, many people fail to pay full attention to security, with some taking the attitude that they’re too small to be worth attacking.

“For example, if you buy a product from a ne w website, you may choose an easy-to-remember password that you’ve used before because the site is not important. ‘Security fatigue’ causes this once-off action to lay the path for a habit where password security is an afterthought rather than a serious decision that can have a big impact on your life.”

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