Data leakage tops Infosec concerns

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Research into the information security challenges faced by businesses released today has revealed that data security and the prevention of data leakage was by far and away the most pressing concern.

With growing numbers of organisations confessing to losing sensitive or personal information, over two thirds (69 per cent) of information security respondents to a survey conducted by Infosecurity Europe named data leakage their top priority.

The second highest rated issue among the 99 respondents was how to secure collaborative and mobile working IT environments (58 per cent), followed closely by how to get security right for efficient compliance.

Other top issues that emerged were implementing security that supports more cost efficient IT infrastructure (48 per cent) and finding identity and access management technology that works (43 per cent).

The survey’s top 10 concerns were:

1) Data leakage from within an organisation (69 per cent)

2) Remote, mobile and collaborative working (58 per cent)

3) Governance, risk and compliance (56 per cent)

4) Implementing security that supports more cost efficient IT infrastructure (48 per cent)

5) ID and access management (43 per cent)

6) Implementing security that is future proof (42 per cent)

7) How to make IT architectures and strategies more secure (39 per cent)

8) Implementing security that helps IT be more agile and aligned with future business needs and growth (31 per cent)

9) Security in new or emerging markets where infrastructure/networks are hostile (25 per cent)

10) Assuring common security standards with third parties, customers, suppliers and outsourced activities (25 per cent)

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