SailPoint Survey Confirms: Employees Will Sell Passwords for $150

While the news is filled with high-profile security breaches, SailPoint’s 7th Annual Market Pulse Survey uncovered a widespread level of employee indifference towards protecting sensitive corporate data, including personal information of customers. In fact, an alarming number of employees surveyed admitted they would sell their passwords, some for as little as $150 U.S. dollars. These stats are based on a global survey of 1,000 employees at large organizations.

In addition to blatant sabotage, the survey also confirmed that employees are lax about password management in general. Specifically, 1 in 5 employees routinely share login information for corporate applications with other members of their team, which increases the potential that the passwords they sell might not even be their own. Compounding the problem, 56% of respondents admitted to some level of daily password reuse for the corporate applications they access, with many as 14% of employees using the same password across all applications.

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