Overconfident security execs may be putting their organisations at greater risk, according to new research.
A report by services firm Accenture has revealed that of the 2,000 enterprise security practitioners – representing companies with annual revenues of more than $1bn – three in four were confident in their ability to stop all crooks getting into their systems.
Titled Building Confidence: Facing the Cybersecurity Conundrum (PDF), the report revealed that more than half of security executives admit it can take months to detect sophisticated breaches, and a third of those successful breaches are never discovered at all.
[...] The French spend 9.4 per cent of their total IT budget on security, ahead of the 8.2 per cent global average, while the Australians tend to scrimp by with a mere 7.6 per cent on security, pipped by the Americans at 8 per cent – though ironically it is French, American and Australian companies who are the least confident in their ability to monitor for a breach.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/02/survey_finds_75_of_security_execs_believe_they_are_invicible/
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @05:12AM
"I'm the CISO of XYZ corporation. Everybody calls me 'Psycho'. Any of you hackers hack my network and I'll kill you."
"And I don't like nobody hacking my servers. so just keep your meathooks off. If I catch any of you hackers in my servers, I'll kill you."
"Also, I don't like nobody hacking my emails. And any of you homo hackers touch my email, and I'll kill you."
(Score: 3, Touché) by Some call me Tim on Thursday November 03 2016, @05:18AM
Relax Francis! ;-)
Questioning science is how you do science!
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday November 03 2016, @07:58AM
Relax Francis! ;-)
Thus it begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @05:49PM
Well, I don't know about that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @08:08AM
Relax Francis! ;-)
The line is actually, "Lighten up, Francis!" But who am I to quibble?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @01:30PM
Kill? That is overkill.
Pulverise their wrists.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday November 03 2016, @09:40PM
I advocate using a 3lb drilling hammer to pulverize their hands, wrist to finger tips, on a 4 inch thick 100lb slab of steel.