By Audra Dial ( June 19, 2018, 12:19 PM EDT) -- Careless employees remain the greatest threat to trade secret theft, according to the recently released "Second Annual Study on the Cybersecurity Risk to Knowledge Assets," co-authored by Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP and the Ponemon Institute. Interestingly, the careless employee plagues companies of all levels of sophistication when it comes to protecting "knowledge assets." This year's survey included a deeper analysis of survey participants who rated their organization's effectiveness in protecting their knowledge assets as very high. Respondents who gave their organization's effectiveness in mitigating the theft of knowledge assets a 9+ ranking on a scale of 1 (not effective) to 10 (highly effective) are identified in the survey as "high performing organizations" and included in the deep-dive analysis. Even among such "high performing organizations," careless employees posed the greatest threat to their knowledge assets, despite greater levels of employee training, audits and restrictions on the access to this high value information at these organizations....