Survey: 75% of firms would take hours or longer to spot breach

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2902252/data-breach/survey-75-of-firms-would-take-hours-or-longer-to-spot-breach.html

By Maria Korolov
CSO
March 26, 2015

Although 68 percent of companies said they are prepared for a breach, 75 
percent estimated it would take hours, days, or weeks for them to notice 
that one had occurred, according to a new survey released this morning.

Osterman Research conducted interviews with 225 mid-sized and large 
organizations on behalf of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based security vendor 
Proofpoint, Inc. to assess attitudes and processes around data breaches 
and data loss prevention.

Only 6 percent of respondents said they were "very well prepared" to deal 
with data breaches, 27 percent said they were "well prepared," and 35 
percent said they were "prepared." Another 18 percent said they were 
"somewhat prepared" and the remaining 14 percent were either not well 
prepared, poorly prepared, or not prepared at all.

However, only 4 percent of respondents said they could detect a potential 
breach within seconds, and 20 percent said it would take them several 
minutes.

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