However, 13% of walkthroughs appeared to be unsuccessful. In general, the majority of players (45%) ended up with a “neutral” result, while 42% managed to achieve the “good” ending. Game choices related to cybersecurity affect the personal and corporate spheres of a playable character’s life directly, leading to one of three game endings – good, neutral or bad. Thus, the typical score gained by a Disconnected player for vigilance amounted 90 while empathy players scored 23 points on average. The mobile game designed to help people realize how cybersecurity impacts their everyday life confirms that most employees have problems balancing safety and sociability. The statistics from connected disclose another problem regarding adhering to cybersecurity policy.

Moreover, only 35% of all respondents admit they feel very prepared to avoid cybersecurity mistakes at work. Thus, they use same passwords for both professional and work accounts more often than older generations, ignore mandatory IT updates and pay less attention to web browser cookies. The researchers from Ernst & Young LLP, however, noticed that Gen Z and millennials are more eager to disregard security protocols for the sake of productivity. At the same time these violations usually happen not because of malicious intentions but result from attempts to perform work tasks efficiently. The role of employees’ cybersecurity policy violations in data breaches remains striking year-on- year.

According to anonymized data, people find it difficult to balance between cybersecurity rules and maintaining good relations with friends and colleagues. While a recent EY Human risk study shows younger employees are less concerned about cybersecurity on work devices than on personal ones, statistics from Kaspersky mobile quest connected reveals another issue regarding corporate cybersecurity.

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