Third of firms catch their staff viewing porn at work

MORE than a third of businesses say they have found their employees watching pornography at work, a study shows.

Some 41 per cent of IT bosses surveyed said they had found a ‘high percentage’ of workers accessing X-rated material while on the clock.

And that’s not the only afterhours activity that they are engaged in – as 45 per cent of IT chiefs said they had found staff logging onto gambling websites.

But not only does illicit web browsing distract employees from work, it also leaves the firm ‘wide open to cyber security threats’ such as email scams and viruses.

The survey, by access management firm OneLogin, found that 29 per cent of businesses fail to monitor browsing history on employees’ computers.

But this could be a rather risky strategy – as the average cost of fixing a serious data breach on a firm’s computer system is a whopping £2.5million.

A OneLogin spokesman said firms are ‘leaving valuable corporate data easily accessible to cybercriminals looking for the easiest way into the network’.