The 80-20 Rule For Security Practitioners Everyday we learn about yet another egregious data security breach, exposure of customer data or misuse of data. It begs the question why in this 21st century, as a security industry we cannot seem to secure our most valuable data assets when technology has surpassed our expectations in other regards. […]
Everyday we learn about yet another egregious data security breach, exposure of customer data or misuse of data. It begs the question why in this 21st century, as a security industry we cannot seem to secure our most valuable data assets when technology has surpassed our expectations in other regards. It’s getting worse: McKinsey in conjunction with the World Economic Forum have estimated that failing cyber security approaches could have an aggregate impact on technology and business innovation of $3 trillion by 2020.
It’s a common underlying misconception that IT staff knows how to secure today’s mission-critical data assets. Firstly, IT practitioners chartered with securing our most data assets may or may not be trained security practitioners and secondly they are relying on the same solutions that have failed in the past, and which continue to fail. And, given ever-increasing data sets, a changing IT environment and a changing threat landscape, it’s hardly safe to assume that IT has an organization’s most valuable data assets secured.
By Evelyn de Souza