[ISN] Low security awareness found across IT

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9208890/Low_security_awareness_found_across_IT_

By Jaikumar Vijayan
Computerworld
February 10, 2011 

A broad spectrum of IT people, including those close to security 
functions, appear to have little awareness of key security issues 
impacting their organizations, a new survey shows.

The survey, which polled 430 members of the Oracle Application Users 
Group (OAUG) conducted by Unisphere Research and sponsored by 
Application Security Inc. included directors and managers of information 
technology, developers and programmers, database and systems 
administrators, systems architects and analysts and professionals from 
the HR and financial functions.

About 22% of respondents claimed to be extensively involved in security 
functions, 60% claimed a limited or supporting role, and the rest said 
they were not involved with security at all. About 100 respondents 
belonged to companies with more than 10,000 employees.

What the survey showed was a surprising lack of awareness of security 
issues among the respondents. For instance, just 4% admitted to being 
fully informed about security breaches within their organizations. About 
80% of those who said their organizations had suffered a data breach in 
the past year were unable to tell which IT components might have been 
impacted by the breach.

There appeared to be even less knowledge or acknowledgement of the costs 
associated with a data breach. Nine out of 10 of those who said their 
organizations had been breached said they had no idea of the resulting 
costs to their companies.

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