Bangalore:  Most of the IT security employees wouldn’t count on the safety of their own corporate networks according to report published by PhoneFactor which is an authenticated solutions provider reports Rachael King in zdnet.com

The report includes a comprehensive survey of over 300 IT professionals in the United States in February about the security of their corporate networks. When the resarchenrs of Phone Factor asked the security professionals to bet one of five amounts ($0, $1000, $5000, $50,000, or $1,000,000) that their network would be consistent enough in the next 12 months, surprisingly 57.7 percent of the respondents refused to take the bet, going instead with just $0.

Sarah Fender, vice president of marketing and product management at PhoneFactor, explained in the report, “It’s easy for a person to say that their network is secure, but when we asked them to make a bet using their own money, they simply would not do so unless additional protections were put into place.”

Whats more? The report revealed that 70.3 percent of respondents were only somewhat confident or not all confident that an unauthorized person could not gain access to their networks.

So, if IT security professionals are this skeptical about the security of corporate networks, how much trust can the rest of users place and be confident when accessing these networks whether it be with personal or work devices?

Unfortunately, the reality is that most employees don’t realize or at times don’t even bother to care) one way or another that they are leaving so much personal and corporate data at risk at a time when many experts from the likes of Cisco, McAfee and Verizon are constantly reminding us that targeted attacks on networks and mobile devices are increasingly rapidly.