01/30/2017

In Effort to Fight Threats, Data Security Suffers

Cyber-threats are growing, and IT departments are facing greater challenges

Two new reports offer different takes on the same issue: the challenges that IT departments face in securing data from cyber-threats.

In an effort to get ahead of potential security threats, are IT departments taking their eyes off the data?

That’s the question examined by two new studies—one by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Varonis Systems, and the other from 451 Research for the security firm Thales.

The Data Security Money Pit, the Forrester and Varonis report based on responses from 150 security decision makers, notes that 93 percent of respondents said they faced major technical challenges in protecting their data. But just 38 percent of respondents knew where their most sensitive structured data was located.

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