Firms take 10 hours to spot data breaches, McAfee finds (fwd)

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By John E Dunn
Techworld
17 June 2013

The average organisation believes it would spot a data breach in ten 
hours, a McAfee global survey of IT professionals has found. But is that 
result good, indifferent or an indication of the downright complacent?

The firm?s interrogation of 500 decision makers from the US, UK, Germany 
and Australia earlier this year found that 22 percent thought they?d need 
a day to recognise a breach, with one in twenty offering a week as a 
likely timescale.

Just over a third said they would notice data breaches in a matter of 
minutes, which counts as real-time by today?s standards.

In terms of general security, three quarters confidently reckoned they 
could assess their security in real-time, with about the same number 
talking up their ability to spot insider threats, perimeter threats and 
even zero-day malware.

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