Over 60 per cent of employees use personal devices to write or send work emails and nearly three in 10 work on public wi-fi networks, Cisco Canada’s survey of 1,003 Canadians showed. The survey findings showed over half of respondents are worried about being hacked. “[Work] culture has moved a little faster than technology in this case,” Robert Barton, Cisco Canada’s chief technology officer told The Logic. (The Logic)

Talking point: Nearly every firm will either get held ransom or have their intellectual property stolen, Barton said. But workers aren’t the only ones to blame for their complacency. A March Cisco survey that included over 300 Canadian companies found that only nine per cent are resilient against cybersecurity risks with secure defences for user identities, devices, networks, application workloads and data. Implementing strong cybersecurity policies is the best way to prevent cyberattacks on company networks, said Barton, adding that “it’s definitely a challenge when you have uncontrolled work environments and hybrid [work] where people are … going all over the place.”