VULNERABILITY TO DATA SECURITY THREATS
...However, 27% of European respondents believe they are ‘vulnerable’ or ‘very vulnerable’ to data security issues – much lower than the global total of 34%.
PROPORTION OF SECURITY FOCUS
A global trend toward more focus on application and data security means companies need to take a holistic focus and protect all aspects of IT infrastructure.
33% 34% 42% 34% 27% 26% 24% 17% 33% 31% 34% 35% 30% 35% 35% 31% 34% 35% 30% 34% 35% 30% 33% 38%
2019 IDC/Thales Data Threat Report Survey. GLOBAL
SWEDEN source:
EU TOTAL
HOLLAND
UK
GERMANY
SWEDEN
UK application security
HOLLAND data security source: 2019 IDC/Thales Data Threat Report Survey.
EU TOTAL network security
GLOBAL
GERMANY
Meanwhile, the risks of digital transformation remain an overarching challenge. This is because digital transformation entails a risk of a disconnect between more advanced organisations that run hybrid cloud-based modern infrastructures, and organisations that retain a dependency on legacy, perimeter-centric infrastructure. While it may seem that organisations further along the transformation
process are in a better place than the laggards, they still have their own challenges to address. They must apply security architectures across legacy infrastructures while they simultaneously roll-out hybrid cloud-based, digitally-transformative technologies. Ironically, this can lead to IT security professionals aiming at the wrong target. These security professionals believe that they are secure as they roll out new technologies, but they may face more extensive challenges as they look to secure a wider variety of IT infrastructure. Put another way, the greater the data distribution across an ever-increasing number of environments, the less organisational focus is available to protect data in any single environment. ‘Companies require smarter, better ways to approach data security and to implement modern, hybrid, and multi-cloud-oriented technologies,’ the report concludes. The UK had the greatest sense of having ‘adequate security’, and the Netherlands had the least. Asked about factors impacting IT security spending decisions, 31% of European respondents said they work to ‘avoid fi nancial penalties resulting from a data breach’, and the same percentage confi rm they are ‘motivated’ by a past incident. Instead, the top-cited security spend driver is ‘implementing security best practices’, cited by 41% of Euro respondents. With many organisations having achieved GDPR compliance, they may feel they are at a ‘good enough’ level for data security, and have now reset aspirations to achieve a ‘best practice’ level of security the report suggests.
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