Canadian security professionals unsure about defenses, Ponemon study finds

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http://www.itbusiness.ca/news/canadian-security-professionals-unsure-about-defenses-ponemon-study-finds/49183

By Candice So
itbusiness.ca
June 5, 2014

A little over half of Canada’s IT security professionals aren’t very 
confident about their ability to defend against attacks – and 77 per cent 
of them aren’t getting the support they need from the C-suite to protect 
confidential data.

That’s according to a new survey from the Ponemon Institute on behalf of 
Websense Inc., a security solutions provider. Researchers polled 236 IT 
administrators in Canada to find out more about the challenges they face, 
as well as what’s keeping them up at night. Respondents had an average of 
nine years’ experience in the field.

Strikingly, 56 per cent of those polled said they don’t feel their 
organization is protected from hackers mounting advanced attacks. Another 
59 per cent said they felt they had the power to stop confidential 
information from leaking outside of their organization, while 43 per cent 
said they felt they understood the scope of threats their organization is 
facing.

And most tellingly, 36 per cent said one or more significant attacks had 
hit them in the past year, though just 29 per cent said they were sure 
they had lost confidential data due to a cyber attack. Twenty-seven per 
cent said they didn’t know exactly hackers had stolen.

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