Again Cyberthreat defeat security pros struggle |Rajat Poonia Rajasthan
As the volume and sophistication of cyber attacks increase, system defenders in the trenches are losing confidence in their ability to protect their organizations' information assets.
Security pros are worried that cyber threats are falling through the cracks in their enterprise security systems, a recent survey suggests.
The survey of almost 5,000 global IT security pros found that more than half of them (57 percent) felt their organizations were unprotected from sophisticated cyber attacks and nearly two-thirds of them (63 percent) doubted they could stop the exfiltration of confidential information from their systems.
However, the C-level execs in their companies don't seem to share their concerns. Seventy-five percent of the survey respondents said their companies' leaders didn't equate the loss of confidential data with a potential loss of revenue.
More than three-quarters of the respondents (75 percent) said their companies' leaders didn't equate the loss of confidential data with a potential loss of revenue.
**> While data is often described as the family jewels of a company, many of them aren't treating it that way, according to another survey released last week by Thales E-Security on data encryption in the cloud.
*Fear of encryption also may be contributing to why companies shy away from it.
**>Microsoft decided to trump efficiency with caution and release a patch for a bug discovered in all versions of its Internet Explorer Web browser April 27.
The flaw in some browser code that hasn't changed for close to a decade had been spotted by FireEye being exploited in the wild in a number of targeted attacks by a group skilled in the use of advanced persistent threats.
When it released the IE fix, Microsoft also showed some empathy for Windows XP users, who lost support for their version of the OS on April 8. It included a version of the patch for XP -- along with a reminder that maybe it was about time to upgrade to Windows 7 or 8.
Security pros are worried that cyber threats are falling through the cracks in their enterprise security systems, a recent survey suggests.
The survey of almost 5,000 global IT security pros found that more than half of them (57 percent) felt their organizations were unprotected from sophisticated cyber attacks and nearly two-thirds of them (63 percent) doubted they could stop the exfiltration of confidential information from their systems.
However, the C-level execs in their companies don't seem to share their concerns. Seventy-five percent of the survey respondents said their companies' leaders didn't equate the loss of confidential data with a potential loss of revenue.
More than three-quarters of the respondents (75 percent) said their companies' leaders didn't equate the loss of confidential data with a potential loss of revenue.
**> While data is often described as the family jewels of a company, many of them aren't treating it that way, according to another survey released last week by Thales E-Security on data encryption in the cloud.
*Fear of encryption also may be contributing to why companies shy away from it.
**>Microsoft decided to trump efficiency with caution and release a patch for a bug discovered in all versions of its Internet Explorer Web browser April 27.
The flaw in some browser code that hasn't changed for close to a decade had been spotted by FireEye being exploited in the wild in a number of targeted attacks by a group skilled in the use of advanced persistent threats.
When it released the IE fix, Microsoft also showed some empathy for Windows XP users, who lost support for their version of the OS on April 8. It included a version of the patch for XP -- along with a reminder that maybe it was about time to upgrade to Windows 7 or 8.
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