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To survive in this world, you have to have someone to blame.
If you decide everything’s your fault, you’ll find yourself in a mental mire from which it’s almost impossible to emerge.
My torrid views are confirmed by two studies that have descended just above my sensitive MacBook butterfly keyboard.
One, courtesy of SaaS operations management platform BetterCloud, offers grim reading.
91 percent of the 500 IT and security professionals surveyed admitted they feel vulnerable to insider threats.
Which only makes one wonder about the supreme (over-)confidence of the other 9 percent.
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Is there any slight corner of the online firmament that’s totally secure? Every time a company tells us how important security is to it, the words dribble out shortly — or, often many, many months — after a security breach.
Is it, though, that IT and security professionals aren’t good enough — or that their task is impossible?
Not quite, it seems. In this survey, a fulsome 62 percent believed the biggest security threat comes from ordinary employees just trying to get through their day. Or, as the survey describes them: “the well-meaning but negligent end user.”
It’s heartening to imagine that IT and security professionals are neither well-meaning nor negligent.
Still, the vast majority of these 500 — 75 percent — believed the biggest holes for the careless are in cloud storage “solutions” such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Box and OneDrive. Email — Gmail, Office 365 are mentioned — is a vast problem too.
Perhaps, I thought, these were just particularly disheartened, grisly IT and security professionals.
The Forlorn 500.
Yet now I’ve been confronted with another survey. This one was performed by the Ponemon Institute at the behest of security-for-your-security company nCipher. Its sampling was depressingly large.
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5,856 IT and security professionals from around the world were asked for their views of corporate IT security. They seemed to wail in unison at the lesser and more unwashed.
Oh, an objective 30 percent insisted that external hackers were the biggest cause for concern. A teeth-gritting 54 percent, however, said the most extreme threat to corporate IT security came from employee mistakes.