Bad practice is putting data at high risk
A study conducted with the analyst company Quocirca has demonstrated that despite their trusted position privileged users are frequently the weakest link in the corporate security chain, due to poor management, inefficient manual processes and lack of awareness.
The study’s findings indicate a real risk of privileged user accounts being compromised, mirroring the ongoing case of Gary McKinnon, who gained access to the Pentagon’s IT systems. While many of the 270 medium and large European organisations surveyed claimed to take steps to protect confidential data including highly personal customer information, 41 percent of supposedly ISO27001 compliant organisations admitted non-compliant practices such as sharing privileged user accounts.
Research has revealed that 90 percent of UK organisations have already migrated – or are planning to migrate – to a virtualised environment. The figures were revealed when researchers asked the 400 It professionals: “Are your current system management and monitoring tools able to support virtualisation?”
A new report reveals that while a quarter of people now access emails via their mobile phones, poor formatting and a lack of brand recognition means that almost a third of permission-based marketing emails are being deleted unread.
A global survey has been published that shows that over half of IT executives believe that their IT systems, processes and services still do not deliver the value expected by the business. The research further underlines the need for organisations to adopt a service value management (SVM) approach to help IT deliver more business alignment.
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