Websense Survey: Cyber Security Pros and Cons

Websense (News - Alert), Inc., a company that specializes in content security and data theft protection, commissioned independent research firm Dynamic Markets to create a survey on threats to corporate and personal security , including modern malware and advanced persistent threats (APTs). The survey report answers about how IT managers coping with fast-changing threat landscape and protecting themselves against latest data-stealing malware. The report is published with the title, “Security Pros & 'Cons': Canadian IT professionals on confidence, confidential data, and today's cyber-cons.”According to a press release, the data for the survey have been collected form 1,000 IT managers and 1,000 non-IT employees in the U.S., UK, Canada, and Australia.

The survey reveals that serious data breaches have occurred compromising CEO and other executives' data, confidential customer data, and data necessary for regulatory compliance and IT managers are feeling the pressure and saying that data loss incidents put their jobs on the line and that the stress of managing their company confidential data is greater than divorce, managing personal debt, or a minor car accident.

"This survey shows that companies need to recalculate their assumptions about how well their data is protected," said Fiaaz Walji, Websense Canadian country manager. "Advanced threats are using attack elements and methods that AV was not designed to address--and are written and tested specifically to bypass AV. Companies need a robust, layered security strategy--like our Websense TRITON(TM) solutions--that can truly protect them from modern malware in the wild and effectively keep their confidential data protected however it's being used."IT security managers’ report that new levels of management have engaged in data security conversations in the last year, including the head of IT (42 percent), managing director (37 percent), and CEO (36 percent).