Security and Privacy
Ipswitch's report found that security was the number one challenge for 25 percent of IT professionals, and thereby ensuring security and privacy will be the top priority for IT teams in 2016. Breaches, malware, vulnerabilities and zero-day attacks were the biggest concern for more than half (55 percent) of the respondents in this category. In addition, Ipswitch's holiday report, which polled 378 IT professionals in the U.S., found that increasing the level of network security was the top resolution that resonated most for IT professionals in 2016 at 51 percent.
In the New Year, IT teams' main focus will be making sure adversaries working to create vulnerabilities within a network and steal sensitive data are stopped. While accepting some level of risk is part of doing business, being able to manage risk by recognizing and shoring up points of vulnerability is the difference between using security as a competitive advantage and being the next victim of a catastrophic data loss.