Cloud & BYOD Top List of IT Security Concerns
February 24, 2014
Grazed from BusinessNewsDaily. Author: Chad Brooks.
Despite the persistent threat of security breaches, most businesses aren’t too concerned about unknown security risks, research shows. A new study by Dell revealed that although security breaches cost U.S. organizations an estimated $25.8 billion annually, many companies fail to effectively recognize and prioritize the next big wave of risk to IT security from unknown threats.
The research shows the majority of IT leaders around the world say they don’t view unknown security threats stemming from trends and technologies like BYOD (bring your own device), mobility, cloud computing and Internet usage as top security concerns. Therefore, these companies aren’t coming up with ways to find and address these potential threats…
Specifically, only 37 percent of the IT leaders surveyed ranked unknown threats as a security issue they will worry about in the next five years…
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