Posted on Friday, January 5th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Elk Rapids, Mich.-based privacy management research company Ponemon Institute finds that:
- Only 37% of IT professionals believe their company is effective at detecting data breaches.
- Only 43% believed that their company would detect a large breach (involving more than 10,000 customer records) more than 80 percent of the time.
- 17% of respondents felt their company would correctly detect a small data breach (involving less than 100 customer records) more than 80 percent of the time.
- Though 66% reported the use of technologies to manage the leakage of sensitive or confidential information, cost was the primary reason cited why organizations would not use these technologies.
- 35% felt that they were too expensive, 16 percent felt manual procedures were adequate, 16 percent felt that their organizations were not vulnerable to breaches and 12 percent criticized existing technology-based data for having too high of a false positive rate.
- 41% believed their organization was not effective at enforcing compliance with their organization’s data protection policies and procedures.
