When it comes to online behaviors, women are far safer than men, according to a wide-ranging survey from SecurityAdvisor.
Despite the fact that women made up 42% of the sample data, they account for 48% of the top safe users and only 26% of risky users. Men, on the other hand, account for 74% of risky users: A big driver of these risky behaviors stems from men’s and women’s online behaviors.
According to SecurityAdvisor’s data, men are more likely to visit dangerous adult websites, use P2P software and watch pirated content than women.
SecurityAdvisor analyzed more than 500,000 malicious emails and an additional 500,000+ dangerous website visits by enterprise employees in more than twenty countries. Employees range from entry-level to executives and operate across many industries, including health care, financial services, communications, professional services, energy and utilities, retail and hospitality.
“Our partner here, Kelley McElhaney from Berkeley University, noted that women are more aware of long-term ramifications of risky behaviors,” SecurityAdvisor CEO Sai Venkataraman said. “Also, society tends to tolerate failures by dominant groups better, hence men don’t fear the consequences or fear consequences less.”
He also pointed out that men, from an early age, are socialized to take risks and win, hence they are less afraid of a potential negative outcome and engage in riskier behaviors.
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