In response to the results gathered in its 2012 Strategic Security Survey, InformationWeek has some simple advice that can apply as much to your marriage or workplace debates as it can IT risk management: pick your battles.
When it comes to security and risk management, don’t try to address every possible threat. Instead, pick your battles: Implement better access control, vet cloud providers, safeguard mobile devices, educate users and build more secure software, for starters.
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They surveyed nearly 1,000 IT security pros and many of the findings are fascinating.
The following four graphs are just a small sampling.
You can download the full, 44-page report at their website (link above).
Most interesting to me is the top two bars in the second chart: security executives now, finally, consider internal users as just a large threat as they do cybercriminals.
Reading this article I finally understand why they say that people are afraid of what they don’t understand. IN the light of the above I believe it is safe to say that most Exec’s don’t understand risk or security. Is this good or bad? neither it is just the way it is…
It is just that looking at the answers in this article we can safely say that Peter’s principle applies to all the interviewed executives …and not only…
When vulnerabilities are considered a top threat, we’re faced with an impressive amount of terminological confusion IMO.