End-User: Security or Convenience

The research will show the likelihood of end-users keeping employer or personal data safe. This research is shown in a flash drive drop experiment where 20 USB flash drives are dropped in high trafficked public areas to see if end-users would, first, pick up the flash drives, and plug them into their computers and open the files inside. The results of the experiment prove end-users are susceptible to a social engineering tactic as simple as picking up corrupted flash drives. With 45% of the flash drives dropped in the experiment plugged into a computer, end - users are more than likely to leave data at risk.