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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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday November 03 2016, @04:38PM
Devilbird there is correct: sometimes violence *is* the answer. While two wrongs don't make a right, they may very well prevent a third wrong. This is something I've known since age 8 or so.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 03 2016, @07:34PM
That's almost like singing to the choir, Azuma. I'm ex military, after all. A lot of people say that violence doesn't solve anything - and they are dead wrong. Violence has solved a lot of problems. Violence often causes more problems, but it does indeed solve problems one way or the other. I won't Godwin this conversation with an obvious example.