The Great Resignation is driving data breaches and cybersecurity threats

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Employees are quitting at an alarming rate, and they’re leaving a cybersecurity breach in their wake.

Forty percent of US employees have taken data with them when they’ve left a job, potentially exposing the company to a slew of cybersecurity concerns, from data breaches to regulatory fines, according to data from email security company, Tessian. Seventy-one percent of IT leaders agree that the data losses have increased security risks in their organization.

Paola Peralta
Associate Editor

Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio


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