Almost half of workers negatively affected by company security systems, says Computing research

Applications burden comes a close second

Almost half of end users are directly negatively affected on a daily basis by their employers' IT security systems, Computing Research has revealed.

Our research has shown that 45 per cent of companies consider that the burden of implementing compliance and security procedures impedes employees from carrying out their daily duties.

Further, the same companies reported that 37 per cent of firms consider security systems to have a negative impact on their applications - regularly slowing down the performance both individual applications, and the networks upon which they run.

To complete the picture, 18 per cent of respondents reported that the performance of systems generally - in terms of patching, upgrades and testing - were adversely affected by security.

At the same time, 37 per cent of respondents said that security would always come before productivity, with 26 per cent of respondents saying they would absolutely never weaken security to raise effectiveness of processes being carried out.

But 10 per cent said they would temporarily reduce security if productivity was being compromised.

The research paper, Cloud storage systems in 2016: when usability equals security, in association with Dropbox, argues that investigating cloud-based systems can create a finer degree of control over not just security itself, but also usability of security systems.

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