Awareness Technologies Offers Employee Monitoring Tips

With the escalating use of mobile devices and tablets, along with the growing number of telecommuters, it’s critical for small businesses to stay on top of employee activity. According to the Ponemon Institute, the costs associated with data breaches caused by careless or malicious employees can be detrimental to an SMB—insider breach incidents cost businesses an average of $3.4 million per business per year.

Furthermore, Ponemon’s survey found that 60 percent of exiting employees walked out with company information. That added to the productivity loss caused by unmonitored employees—the average unmonitored employee wastes approximately 30 percent of their workday on nonwork-related Web browsing—is costing small businesses more than they realize.

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