IT security managers face up to the 'people problem'.
According to a recent Imperva survey of IT security managers the biggest threats to data security come from staff inside organisations. 54% of security managers surveyed believed that data theft is primarily undertaken by employees. By contrast, only 21% saw hackers as the key concern.
Because staff often have access to all aspects of the company, disgruntled employees are by definition best placed to potentially do the most harm. For this reason, insiders are increasingly becoming the focus of IT security managers.
Data security is both helped and hindered by the fact that people seem to follow pretty predictable behaviour patterns. Security experts who know these patterns are well placed to help firms seal many of the holes that data commonly leaks from. On the flip side, a firms usual security measures are often too predictable, and play into the hands of potential attackers. This applies to firms of all sizes, from SMEs to big corporations such as BAA whose director of security, Ian Hutcheson recently announced a major security overhaul, saying that the standard global security checks they had in place might actually give potential terrorists an advantage.
The Imperva report that contained the survey results also highlighted a particular area which will be the main focus for switched on security managers in 2011.
This is that mobile phone protection needs to be beefed up. This means better user identification and in-phone security. Better staff training on the dangers of downloading apps containing hidden malware and more rigorous use of telephone forensics when worries emerge that personal mobile telephones are being secretly monitored.
So, two new years resolutions worth considering are firstly to call in experts such as QCC Interscan to plug those potential leaks caused by peoples predictable behaviours, and secondly to think carefully about the security of the many mobile phones in your organisation.
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