New research into Infosecurity Business Challenges by Infosecurity Europe has found that the top business challenge facing companies is preventing data leakage.
That has 69% of respondents rating this as their top issue. The second highest rated issue was how to secure collaborative and mobile working (58%) followed closely by how to get security right for efficient compliance. Other top issues were implementing security that supports more cost efficient IT infrastructure (48%) and finding ID and access management that works (43%).
The top 10 issues were as follows:
How to prevent data leakage from within an organisation 69%
How to secure remote, mobile and collaborative working 58%
Governance risk compliance – get security right to ensure compliance 56%
Implementing security that supports more cost efficient IT infrastructure 48%
ID and access management that works 43%
Building security that is future proof 42%
How to make IT architectures and strategies more secure 39%
How can security help IT more agile and aligned with future business needs and growth 31%
Security in new or emerging markets where infrastructure/networks are hostile 25%
Assuring common security standards with third parties, customers, suppliers and outsourced activities 25%.
These issues were discussed in depth in Mike Barwiseโs blog on www.infosecurityadviser.com the online forum run by the Infosecurity Europe expo.
Mike Barwise said: โThe respondents are clearly aware of business risk from major exposures such as data leakage and insecure remote working, but still seem to be seeking magic bullets – practical solutions including future proof security, standards compliance and secure development do not rank highly as priorities. So it seems the business/technical divide is as great as ever, and remains the limiting factor in corporate information security.โ
The survey of 99 information security experts was carried out in August 2008.
