| Organisations fail to address networked and distributed stored data risks The Emmes Group, a strategy consulting and market research organisation has published the preliminary results of an independent survey conducted into the storage security preparedness within US commercial and government organisations.
The report polled 555 IT decision makers and influencers across a range of domestic industries, including, but not limited to, service providers, government, financial, healthcare, insurance, and telecommunications. The responses indicated that although the majority of respondents believe that threats against the integrity and confidentiality of stored data to be the top concern, many are unprotected or are uncertain what measures their companies are taking to secure their data-at-rest. When confronted with myriad regulatory privacy requirements, the majority of those polled were also unsure as to how their organisation's current storage data management practices adhere to domestic, international, industry or corporate compliance guidelines. Secure access and back-end storage infrastructure requirements ranked second in importance only to that of the availability of outsourced application/hosting services - yet more than half of the organisations will deploy networked or distributed storage applications, regardless of internally limited or incomplete security capabilities. "While network data security provisions such as firewalls, anti-virus and virtual private networks are commonplace, there is a definite disconnect among IT professionals as to storage security practices and the availability of technology to secure corporate assets and address compliance requirements," said Martin Schroeder, executive vice president and managing director at The Emmes Group.
•Date:
26th February 2004 •Region: N.America •Type:
Article •Topic:
IT continuity |
