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Survey Finds 75% of Security Execs Believe they are INVINCIBLE

posted by martyb on Thursday November 03 2016, @03:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the Helen-Reddy-has-a-song-for-you dept.

AnonTechie writes:

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: 4, Interesting) by TheRaven on Thursday November 03 2016, @10:31AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Thursday November 03 2016, @10:31AM (#421995) Journal
    For the second one, whenever you are about to buy a product, think about the options. If one seems more attractive but you can't think why, it's probably because of advertising. Pick another one. If you can remember the advert for one brand, pick another one. Enough people do this and companies will start to see advertising correlate with a decline in sales.
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  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday November 04 2016, @01:39PM

    by Wootery (2341) on Friday November 04 2016, @01:39PM (#422468)

    Not all advertising is evil. It can provide a valuable service making (potential) customers aware of something that could benefit them.