The survey found 64 percent of Millennials use their employer-owned device for personal use, as opposed to 37 percent of Baby Boomers.
Despite a great familiarity with a Web-based life and the technology that comes with it, the Millennial generation poses a greater risk to data security than other categories of users, according to a survey of 762 North American adults conducted by Absolute Software.
The survey found 64 percent of Millennials use their employer-owned devices for personal use, as opposed to 37 percent of Baby Boomers, and 35 percent of Millennials modify their default settings, compared to 8 percent of Baby Boomers.
In addition, 27 percent of Millennials access “Not Safe for Work” content, compared with only 5 percent of Baby Boomers, and a quarter of Millennials believe they compromise IT security, compared with only 5 percent of Baby Boomers.
