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The Data Maturity Model
A staggering number of organizations are taking a risk with their data by overlooking basic safeguards.
There's a very clear correlation between those that are very confident about their security and basic data protection activities like:
- Monitoring actual access activity
- Assigning owners to data
- Scanning for sensitive data
- Reviewing permissions
Privacy and Trust
Most people trust businesses to protect their data despite a rise in data breaches, identity theft, and privacy mishaps.
In fact, 67% of us have sent unencrypted personal information to a business over email, assuming that data will be protected.
What's in the report?
- Find out why we get a C on our personal security report card
- All of the stats from our research
- Some quick tips for consumers and businesses to tighten security
Bring Your Own Demise
Over 50% of employees say someone has lost a personal device with important company data on it.
In February of 2013, Varonis conducted an online survey to examine the impact of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) on work habits, productivity, and data security.
The results were a bit unsettling:
- 50% of employees report that someone at their company has lost a device with important data on it
- 22% said the lost device had security implications for the organization
- 86% of employees are “device obsessed”, using their personal devices to work day and night
Virtual Reality
Nearly Half of IT Staff Fear Unauthorized Access To Virtual Servers.
According to Gartner, there are more than 50 million virtual machines residing on servers. Varonis surveyed VMWorld attendees in San Francisco and Barcelona about VM deployment and security. Download the full report to see what we found.
Digital Work Habits
Are You Ready to Declare Email Bankruptcy?
Whether we realize it or not, our inboxes are world-writable to-do lists. Some of us have reached a breaking point -- consumed by more than 500 emails per day. We are spending hours flagging, tagging, and responding.
It's a reality: email may be eating our productivity. Find out just how bad it is.
Data on the Move
Every day we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data that we have to process, manage, protect, backup and move. IT pros know that moving bits isn't easy. There are lots of factors to consider: availability, security, cross-platform issues, and more.
What are the top 8 things that would make data migrations easier? Read our full report on data and domain migrations.
The Bring Your Own Services (BYOS) Paradox
BYOS is threatening to sweep past all company defences and carry away the company data. Find out how companies are reacting.
Here's a sneak peak:
- 80% of organizations do not allow employees to use cloud file sync services
- The vast majority would like to leverage cloud services if not for security and compliance concerns
- 20% have zero measures in place to prevent or monitor access to cloud file sync services
- Of the 20% with no measures, a shocking 70% were not concerned about security breaches
High Pressure Cloud Patterns
Varonis surveyed IT workers from over 400 organizations to gauge their adoption and perception of security of cloud collaboration services.
The results indicate that organizations may soon be under pressure to better control the data that makes its way into the cloud.
Is Big Data IT's Secret Weapon for Information Security?
At Infosecurity Europe 2012, we conducted a survey to determine what IT security professionals were thinking about big data. Over 180 attendees responded, answering questions about whether they thought the definition of big data itself was clear, whether it is or will be a priority for their organizations, and how they might like to use it.
IT security pros were most interested in using big data analytics to:
- Find at risk sensitive data
- Identify possible malicious activity
- Find users with excessive access rights
The State of Data Protection
In March of 2012, Varonis introduced an online survey to explore organizational adoption of current data protection practices and confidence levels, and how data protection practices correlate with data protection activities.
- Over 80% reported that they store data belonging to customers, vendors, and other business partners
- Only 26% reported being very confident that data stored within their organization is protected
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