Although a majority of security professionals cite data breaches as their top concern, many aren't equipped to protect their organization's sensitive and confidential data.
Uncertainty over Location and Risk of Data
The two most significant security challenges facing IT security practitioners are: 1) not knowing the location of sensitive data and 2) not understanding the risk of compromise associated with that data. According to the study, 62 percent of respondents are concerned over lack of visibility into where their organization's sensitive or confidential data resides. Similarly, only 12 percent of respondents understand the risk of structured data contained in databases, and very few respondents have insight into the risk to unstructured data contained in emails or files (8 percent), data located in the cloud (7 percent) and big data used for analytics (5 percent).