FEATURE


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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION STANCE


36% of Euro respondents are in one of the top two most advanced digital transformation categories. This trails the global average of 39% fi tting into those categories.


17% 15% 14% 14% 13% 12%


BREACH INCIDENT RATES (AT ANY TIME)


Breach incident rates for Europe overall were on par with the global sample, with 61% of Euro respondents reporting that they’ve been breached at any past point...


23%


24%


23%


22%


23%


20%


77%


61%


60%


60%


54%


54%


GERMANY


GLOBAL


HOLLAND


EU TOTAL


UK


SWEDEN


Aggressively disruptive use of new digital technologies & business models to affect markets. Digital capabilities embedded in the enterprise & tightly linked to an agile management vision.


SWEDEN source:


EU TOTAL


GLOBAL 2019 IDC/Thales Data Threat Report Survey.


HOLLAND


UK


GERMANY


of organisational sizes, with the


majority ranging from 500 to 10,000 employees. Digital transformation (sometimes shortened to just ‘DX’) now fundamentally impacts the pan- European economy. Digital transformation facilitates


new and innovative ways to provide an


improved customer experience


and drive greater effi ciencies and productivity gains. Some 36% of European respondents say they are either ‘aggressively disrupting’ the markets they participate in aim to embed digital capabilities that enable greater organisational agility. Digital transformation is also likely


complex and risky, as it introduces new diffi culties for information security professionals. Not only must security professionals deal with a very dynamic threat environment, in which 61% of European respondents say they have been breached at some point in their company’s life, but they must also function in an increasingly restrictive regulatory environment. Together, these compounding issues should, however, implore organisations to implement the data management best practices that give them the foundation for high-quality, secure transformational eff orts.


Most European companies have cleared the initial challenge of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance, the report says, and stacked their security inventory up using extra budget allocation caused by GDPR ‘fear’, Brexit, and the need to ‘digest’ new technologies and processes recently acquired and built. Forty-one per cent of European companies in the sample say their spending will increase over the coming year, down from 72% last year, even while threat vectors are increasing: cyber criminals, cyber terrorists, and hacktivists top the concerns list concerns for all European companies. European data environments are increasingly complex, and this


complexity is proving to be a barrier to data security. Just like in other geographies, European companies are moving workloads to multiple cloud environments, even as they work to maintain traditional on-premises infrastructures. European companies are adopting cloud options for sensitive data and critical applications (see Cyber Security Europe, Spring 2019 issue), which means they must get cloud security right, but not over-complicate IT strategies. Organisations must take a multi-layered approach to security,


and the Data Threat Report study shows that European executives are working toward this goal. European respondents are placing a


Among the European countries polled, the UK had the greatest sense of having ‘adequate security’, while the Netherlands had the least.


roughly equal amount of focus on network, application, and data security with 35% of their focus on network, 34% on data, and 31% on application security; these fi gures map closely to the global total. Respondents have lengthy ‘to do’ lists with plans to implement a variety of technologies over the coming 12 months, but they struggle to implement their plans, and rate complexity as their greatest barrier to data security implementation, followed by lack of budget and staff .


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