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Finding 6: The adoption of comprehensive strategies is also boosting confidence.
More companies have adopted an enterprisewide IT-security strategy and have connected it to their risk strategy, indicating that security is becoming better aligned overall. Yet many respondents complain their company doesn't take a strategic enough approach to security. Is that why there are still holes remaining in security policies and procedures, as our later findings reveal?
Research Guide:
Finding 1: Employee negligence and Microsoft vulnerabilities are considered the most significant IT-security risks
Finding 2: Almost half of large companies have been targeted by online criminals.
Finding 3: One company in six has lost equipment containing company data in the past year.
Finding 4: Confidence in IT security remains high, despite security problems.
Finding 5: Overall satisfaction with security technologies is keeping confidence levels high.
Finding 6: The adoption of comprehensive strategies is also boosting confidence.
Upcoming results from the Security survey:
Sept: 27: Are IT executives being overconfident? Protecting data, tightening policies.
Read our previous surveys on IT security, privacy and risk:
September 2005: Security Relaxes as IT Threats Increase
September 2004: Security and Privacy: Do You Feel More Secure Than Last Year?
August 2003: Is Your Security Comfort Level Too High?
September 2002: Rethinking Risk
February 2002: Security 2002
October 2001: Disaster Recovery 2001
Related stories:
Trends:
Trust Yourself: The Business Value of Trust (Sept 2004)
Re-Engineering Security (August 2003)
Case studies:
Lexis-Nexis: Ground Zero for War vs. Data Thieves (Sept 2005)
Ships Systems: Surviving the Storm, and the Recovery
Interviews and Expert Voices:
Ira Winkler: Security is Easier—And Crooks Are Dumber—Than You Think (Sept 2005)
Larry Ponemon, Ponemon Institute: Making Privacy Work (Sept 2004)
Jim Seligman, CIO, Centers for Disease Control: An Ounce of Prevention (Sept 2004)
Bruce Schneier, Counterpane Internet Security: How to Fight (August 2003)
Technology:
Outsourced Security: An Idea CIOs Loathe (Sept 2005)
Identity Management: Who are You?
Whiteboards:
Hugh Dubberly: The Information Loop (Sept 2004)
Gary Lynch and Karen Avery: How to Improve Your IT Security Policy: A Six Sigma Approach (August 2003)
Opinion:
Dan Gillmor: Customer Data May be Too Risky to Keep (Sept 2005)
Darwin John: Whose Data Is It, Anyway?
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