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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Huge Bias in samplling method

[nathan.fulton]

From the footnotes of the PDF:
-The anonymous survey was open to all respondents independent of geographical location, job title, company size or industry.
-The survey was web-based and aimed at respondents interested in or worried about web security threats in general and aimed at their organization. In other news, when we polled members before entering a porn site, 98% said they plan on taking measures to protect their web anonymity within the next hour. The other 2% have a very strange fetish.