b'Ineffective Leadership Poses SignificantAdditionally, a Perceptyx report shows about a Risk for Companiesquarter of employees say they are working for the worst manager they have ever had, pointing to bad boss behaviors such as being unresponsive, unsupportive and disrespectful. To help overcome these challenges, the Mercer and Marsh report implies a skills-based focus can help with talent acquisition, growth and retention; in-house training, apprenticeships and other nontraditional approaches to training can be useful.Insider Security ThreatsIn a survey of more than 1,000 human resourcesA new report reveals that the growing use of cloud professionals and risk professionals in the U.S.,data makes insider security threats more difficult to respondents noted several concerns related todetect and prevent. Insider security threats affect more ineffective leadership at their workplaces, according tothan 34% of businesses and have increased by 47% HR Dive. The May 23 report from Mercer and Marshover the past two years as many industries move to shows about 35% of respondents said they arecloud storage.concerned ineffective leadership will lead to a negative culture or work environment, tense teamMost insider security threats come from negligence. dynamics and mistrust.Only about one-third of insider threats come from malicious or disgruntled employees or contractors About a third of respondents said they are concernedlooking to do damage. The other two-thirds of threats about significant dependence on key people andare due to users disobeying security rules for inadequate succession planning, and only about 30%convenience or human error. These users may store said they have an effective workforce strategy toconfidential data on personal devices or share acquire, grow and deploy workers based on skills.passwords to make their job easier. Negligent users may also share data with a criminal in a phishing HR and risk leaders also highlighted people risksattack.linked to increasing health and benefit costs, a lack ofMalicious insider threats include former employees cybersecurity knowledge and mismanagement ofwho steal data during their offboarding process or artificial intelligence.current employees working with third-party organizations seeking to harm the company.The breadth and depth of intersecting risksStoring business data in the cloud introduces new organizations face today is staggering, said Susaninsider security threats that may not have been an Potter, Mercers region president for the U.S. andissue on physical servers. Many businesses are adding Canada, in a statement. People are an organizationscloud storage without an understanding of most important asset, but they can also exposesegmentation, monitoring, and access controls. organizations to risk without the right culture, policies and training. Education is the first line of defense against insider A UKG Workplace Institute poll shows managers maysecurity threats. Businesses should have clear influence employees mental health more than doctorsguidelines on personal device use, including USB or therapists and about the same as a spouse ordrives, and those policies should be communicated partner; workers said the stress negatively affects theirregularly to employees. A large percentage of insider home life, well-being and relationships, and most saiddata breaches occur from an employee trying to make they would take a pay cut for a job that better supportstheir job easier, so its essential to communicate how their mental health.confidential and privileged data should be used. Continued to page 12 5'