How costly is a data breach? That depends on where you live.
Symantec sponsored a study conducted by the Ponemon Institute that looks at such costs at 209 enterprises in eight countries: the U.S., UK, Germany, France, Australia, and, new this year, Italy, India, and Japan. Costs such as detection, escalation, notification, and post-breach responses were included, as were estimates of the “economic impact of lost or diminished customer trust and confidence as measured by customer turnover, or churn rates.”
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A new report summarizing a June survey of 335 IT professionals conducted by MokaFive makes one thing clear: “bring your own device” (BYOD) is here to stay. According to 88 percent of respondents, their companies had some sort of BYOD -- sanctioned or not.
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It’s not just the loss of smartphones and laptops that keep security administrators busy. According to a new survey of 300 IT security professionals in London conducted by SecurEnvoy, enterprises are wasting resources “recovering and replacing lost physical authentication tokens.”
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What better place than the show floor of April’s Infosecurity Europe 2012 conference to ask 119 network security specialists about their firewall management practices?
The study, conducted by Tufin Technologies (a security policy management solutions provider) and released today, found that only 6 percent of respondent’s organizations have implemented continuous firewall compliance; 39 percent are considering moving to continuous compliance to satisfy legislation such as the EU Directive on Privacy. More than half (51 percent), however, aren’t considering such a move “just yet.”
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Enterprises know that employees and customers both expect critical systems to run around the clock without failure. That’s putting pressure on IT to examine their backup and recovery strategies and procedures.
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When I signed up with my cable company to add telephone service as part of a bundle, I knew I was getting a better deal than the phone company offered. At least I thought I was, until the fees and miscellaneous taxes started appearing on my itemized cable bill.
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Dimension Data's Network Barometer Report 2012 looks at how prepared enterprise networks are to support ongoing operations given current tech trends. The results, released yesterday, aren’t pretty.
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An independent survey of nearly 350 CIOs’ and IT executives’ attitudes about cloud adoption, trends, value, and challenges reveals strong optimism about current and future benefits of cloud computing.
Survey participants believe the “adoption of cloud technologies is good for business” (92 percent), though IT executives are more enthusiastic than are IT managers. Participants believe the technologies help IT deliver better systems for less money (the familiar “value” proposition -- at 67 percent), and “SaaS applications give business stakeholders more ownership of key applications” (62 percent)
Despite that optimism, rollout of cloud technologies is still somewhat slow, Host Analytics, the survey’s sponsor, points out. “Only 31 percent described their systems as primarily cloud-based at this time,” while 69 percent say their company “still work[s] primarily with on-premise applications.” For those enterprises where cloud is deployed, the majority (88 percent) reported some IT adoption challenges; 12 percent said they faced no challenges (lucky them). I found it interesting that 96 percent of IT managers -- those managing the actual cloud work -- reported challenges.
The top complaint: integrating application data (67 percent), followed by concerns about knowing “where our data is” (39 percent) and difficulty developing workflows across applications (34 percent).
IT is the biggest user of cloud-based applications (67 percent of enterprises report having a cloud-based application in their IT department); the sales department comes next at 36 percent, followed closely by customer support at 35 percent.
One benefit of the cloud shines bright for more than half (54 percent) of respondents: SaaS business intelligence would provide “easier access to data currently in application silos;” 46 percent believe SaaS BI would increase visibility. Faster deployment was expected from 42 percent of survey participants.
In one troublesome trend, 37 percent of IT executives report being asked to assume ownership for solutions purchased without their input. Sound familiar? If you think data integration is tough without IT input and examination, imagine the headache of integrating data from applications dumped in your lap. (True, it’s similar to the problems of integrating data as a result of mergers and acquisitions -- where data resides in applications over which you had no input -- but in this case, the situation is preventable.)
The survey was conducted in May by Dimensional Research, which asked “an independent group of CIOs, IT executives, and other IT professionals to participate in a Web survey on the topic of cloud adoption and trends.” Most respondents (86 percent) were located in U.S. and Canada, the remainder in the EMEA and APAC regions. Results can be downloaded here, though a short registration is required.
-- James E. Powell
Editorial Director, ESJ
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