A recent survey of 1,000 enterprise employees in Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the U.K. and the U.S. found that 1 in 5 respondents has uploaded proprietary corporate data to a cloud app such as Dropbox or Google Docs “with the specific intent of sharing it outside the company,” and 1 in 5 respondents use such apps without IT’s knowledge.

The survey, sponsored by SailPoint and conducted by Vanson Bourne, also found that 1 in 4 employees said they would take corporate data with them when they left their job, even though 60 percent of respondents said they knew their employer strictly forbids taking intellectual property after leaving the company.

Fully 66 percent of employees said they still had access to corporate data via cloud apps such as Dropbox or Google Docs after they left their jobs. Only 28 percent of respondents said corporate policies closely monitor their use of cloud apps for mission-critical data, and just 60 percent of employees are aware of company policy regarding corporate data theft.

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