The technological savvy millennials bring to the workplace comes with a price, says a new report from the Society for Human Resource Management.
Despite knowing better than any other generation, perhaps, not to click on the email offering $10 million from a deposed African dictator, millennials are a cybersecurity liability simply because of the fact that their lives are so inextricably intertwined with the web.
"Millennials in the workplace have a different perspective on the sensitivity of information, information-sharing, and the ramifications of personal data being shared within a corporate environment," Morey Haber, vice president of technology at BeyondTrust, a Phoenix-based cybersecurity company, told SHRM.
|Common-sense security
In addition, explained some experts, young workers who are under pressure to complete tasks quickly, particularly if they are shifting between various roles in the company, are likely to skip a few common-sense security steps.
Companies often jeopardize their security by assuming that young employees are tech experts and tasking them with sensitive security roles without training.
While tech education might be left to other departments, it will often be HR's role to communicate a clear set of internet policies to employees aimed at safeguarding the company's security. That includes simple but oft-neglected things, like avoiding easy-to-crack passwords.
|Groans from iPhone addicts
Some of the policies floated by experts are bound to garner groans from iPhone addicts. They include never using a personal email or social media account for work purposes, and vice versa.
Those types of strict lines between the personal and the professional will undoubtedly remain little more than aspirations in some workplaces. Many young workers see their personal social media presence as an important component of their professional life. They don't want to have to abandon the Twitter following they garnered from one job when they move on to their next job.
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