How crap is that?
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Security on
Security specialists Websense conducted an opinion poll during the e-crime congress in London this year, and have today revealed the results. Of 105 international security professionals surveyed, 64% beleived that the Board would be responsible in the event of an information leakage, but 95% said that companies would probably not even know about the leak in the first place.
Let me recap, 95% of the security professionals from around the world that were asked agreed that companies would not be confident that they would even know about an information leak. How crap is that?
Very crap is the correct answer.
The spook of security specialists, a collective noun I claim responsibility for, also agreed (well 79% of them did at any rate) that legislation should be put in place to curb this data loss epidemic, as well as to ensure the better transparency following any breach. Sadly there was only a 2% hike to 10% amongst the spook when it came to thinking that companies were actually taking anything like a properly proactive role in tackling the problem in the first place.
The other key findings of the survey are as follows:
* Information breaches are costly
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