According to Reuters, one in three information technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues" personal emails and salary details.
Cyber-Ark surveyed 300 senior IT professionals and found 1/3 admitted to snooping, and 47 percent had admitted to accessing information not relevant to their role.
Cyber-Ark found that administrative passwords are changed far less frequently than standard user passwords, with 30 percent being changed only once every 3 months, and 9 percent never being changed, meaning that any past employees would still have access to the systems.
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