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Subject: [ISN] Sensitive Data Protection Bedevils IT Security Pros
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2014-06-25 7:20:28
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1406250720190.10354 () infosecnews ! org
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By William Welsh
InformationWeek.com
6/24/2014
Most organizations don't know where their sensitive structured or
unstructured data resides, says new Ponemon study.
Knowing where sensitive data is located on an organization's computer
systems would seem a prerequisite for sound IT security, but the vast
majority of IT security practitioners say they can't count even on that
fundamental premise, according to a Ponemon Institute study released
Tuesday.
Only 16% of respondents said they knew where their organization's
sensitive structured data resides, according to the State of Data Centric
Security study. A mere 7% of respondents said they know the location of
all sensitive unstructured data, including in emails and documents.
Not knowing where their organization's sensitive or confidential data is
located was the No. 1 worry of the IT security respondents, eclipsing both
hacker attacks and insider threats, according to the study.
The study, which was sponsored by data integration software provider
Informatica, is based on a survey of 1,587 IT security professionals whose
jobs include helping protect sensitive or confidential structured and
unstructured data.
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