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Most Companies Admit Their Data is at Risk

A recent survey of IT professionals published on BH Consulting Security Watch shows that cyber-data-theft should be a good reason for concern. Based on answers of 1387 professionals, 25% acknowledged that their organization has been breached. What is worse 42% did not know and could not exclude a breach, reflecting on the number of organizations that could potentially be breached without anyone knowing after the fact. Other findings we should be concerned about include 82% of Healthcare IT respondents admitting that medical records are at risk of cyber data-theft, and 68% of all sectors admitting sensitive corporate information can be compromised by cyber-criminals. The report by web security firm Finjan could be downloaded here (requires short registration)

This survey comes a week after Forrester Research found in their survey that IT security spending is expected to rise (or at least remain the same) — with the current level of data breaches and sensitive data that is not protected well enough, there is a good reason to it.