Survey results reveal both IT pros' greatest fears and apparent needs

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/739986/survey-results-reveal-both-it-pros-greatest-fears-and-apparent-needs

By Grant Hatchimonji
Senior Editor
CSO.com
September 18, 2013

IT professionals have plenty to worry about, according to recent survey 
results published by eIQNetworks. The survey, which asked 272 IT decision 
makers what keeps them up at night, shed some light on how much room some 
security teams have for improvement and why they're facing so many 
challenges in the first place.

Among the questions asked, the survey examined what was important to IT 
professionals, with 34 percent of respondents saying that their greatest 
information security nightmare would be an external data breach for 
financial gain. Similarly, the survey asked what the two biggest 
challenges to demonstrating compliance are, with 31 percent responding 
with measuring and reporting on compliance and 24 percent saying 
automating IT controls.

But perhaps more important were the numbers that indicated how teams' 
security measures were set up and how well they operated.

Among the highlights -- or rather, lowlights -- was the fact that 25 
percent of respondents said they didn't know how long it would take to 
find the root cause of a breach. Even the ones that could provide a 
timeline weren't very reassuring, with 22.8 percent stating that it would 
take them within a month to find the cause (and 6.3 percent needing to go 
beyond a month).

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