There are best practices for securing access to critical systems and data that many organizations tend to ignore, the survey found. The vast majority (81.4 percent) of IT security staff think that employees tend to ignore the rules that IT departments put in place, and more than half (52.2 percent) of the same respondents said they believe that employees would not listen more even if IT directives came from executive management, rather than IT, according to a survey by identity management and security management specialist Lieberman Software. More than 70 percent of IT security professionals would not be willing to bet $100 of their own money that their companies will not suffer a data breach in the next six months.