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.

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surprised?

[zappepcs]

I really don't think this will surprise anyone in the IT industry. It's not even really news. Most data remains secure/not-stolen simply by accident.

That is just how things are. To secure data, it will not be pretty, comfortable, or cheap. In the current economic environment nobody is all set to start spending with an increase in IT budge of 250% and so insecure it will remain.

Re:surprised?

[Lumpy]

Bingo. When I was doing the SOX audits for my last Fortune 100 corporation I worked for. I highlighted all the problems and found solutions.

The CTO and all other executives said, The costs are too high to fix it, we'll just report we are out of compliance.. the Fines are cheaper.

I left that company 3 weeks later.