Question

How serious is the policy violation in information security? Meaning, did it put the company at greater risk, data exposure, or personnel issue.

Answer 1

It is very important for an organization to make the policies related to the information security. Information security means that the data or the information which needs to be confidential remains safe or secured. It is advisable for any of the employee to not violate these policies. A company or organization should take it very serious to protect their policies. This issue is very serious because it is related to the organization's reputation.

Violation of policies put the company as well as the employee at greater risks. one of the example is suppose you are on leave and there is some emergency in the office because of which they need your credentials but according to company policy it is always advisable that you should not share your credentials with anyone in any situation. So you never share the credentials with anyone because if any misdeed happens then only you will be responsible because you shared the credentials.

So the violation of policies affect the company's reputation as well as the employee's job. Also the data is leaked which is confidential.

Company should install such tools which observe that is there any violation taking place or not.

one more example is In the offices we have some restrictions like you cant surf social media sites etc in office pc or internet then this is observed by the softwares installed in those systems because this is also in the policy of companies.