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Most Companies Admit Their Data Is At Risk
Weblver1 writes "A recent survey of IT professionals published by web security firm Finjan shows that data-theft should be a good reason for concern. Based on answers from 1,387 professionals, 25% acknowledged that their organization has been breached. What's worse, 42% did not know and could not exclude a breach, reflecting on the number of organizations that could potentially be breached without anyone knowing after the fact. Other findings we should be concerned about include 82% of Healthcare IT respondents admitting that medical records are at risk of data-theft, and 68% of all sectors admitting sensitive corporate information can be compromised by cyber-criminals. Finjan's report is available here (PDF, registration required). This survey comes a week after Forrester Research found in their survey that IT security spending is expected to rise (or at least remain the same) — with the current level of data breaches and sensitive data that is not protected well enough, there is a good reason for it.
Do you trust the people you work with? Any individual in any business can access all sorts of material information.
Maybe it will be leaked to someone outside. Maybe it will be inadvertently passed in an email reply. Maybe someone will break in and steal an unguarded laptop.
There is no way to protect any data. The medical records everyone cries over is already shared with your doctors. Do you trust their secretaries? Do you trust the software makers and the maintenance/service engineers who come to diagnose software problems?
There is no privacy, and there is no secret information. There is only information which has not yet been leaked. And your only hope is that any information that is leaked is already moot by the time it becomes public.
Personally I'd be more worried about the other 33% who seem to think they could not possibly have had their security breached.