SafeNet has announced results from a survey conducted by SafeNet of 230 United States security professionals, revealing Data Breach within the Next Three Years.
66 percent of security professionals are not confident that they are employing the right technologies to secure their high-value data.31 percent of those same respondents acknowledged that their network perimeter defenses have been breached in the past. According to the survey 1 out of 3 (35 percent) security professionals stated that their security investments are being deployed to the wrong technologies. However, 95 percent continue to invest in and employ the same data security strategies.
Dave Hansen, President and Chief Executive Officer, SafeNet, stated, “While the overall IT and threat landscape has dramatically changed over the past several years, the security industry has been slow to adapt to those changes. Today’s threat landscape demands a mindset that moves beyond attempting to achieve absolute breach prevention. Organizations must accept that a breach will happen and implement strategies such as encryption that secure the breach by making the data useless to anyone but its rightful owner. Threats to vital infrastructure and high-value data have outgrown traditional breach prevention strategies, such as network perimeter security and anti-malware, and it is clear that maintaining the same approach of years past is antiquated and dangerous. As an industry, we know what needs to be done, and the time for change and action is now.”
The company has published a Secure Breach Manifesto that outlines the current state of the data breach epidemic and the roadmap security professionals can follow when implementing a strategy that “Secures the Breach”.
