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

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 maxwell demon on Thursday November 03 2016, @09:57PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday November 03 2016, @09:57PM (#422269) Journal

    But there is also Amazon Prime which is all about keeping Amazon at the top of your list of merchants. Or a sams club membership. Or a supermarket loyalty card. Or even just the way products are arranged in the store to stoke impulse purchases as you walk to what you really intended to buy.

    That's marketing, not advertisement.

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