BY Ann Longmore-Etheridge
A June 2014 data-centric security study by Informatica has resulted in some surprising findings. The study reveals that "the majority of respondents (80 percent) recognize that not knowing the location of sensitive data poses a threat, but only slightly more than half are prioritizing security initiatives," according to Informatica. Data-centric security is an approach that assigns a security policy to data at its creation and follows it as it flows throughout an organization and beyond. It is independent of the technology, geography, or hosting platform. The study was based on a survey of 1,587 global IT and IT security practitioners in 16 countries and was designed to "determine the readiness of organizations to embrace data-centric security practices and tools as part of a mission to protect the burgeoning reservoirs of corporate data assets," according to Dr. Larry Ponemon, founder and chairman of the Ponemon Institute and leader of the survey. The study found that "only 16 percent of respondents said they knew where their organization's sensitive structured data resides, [and a] mere 7 percent of respondents said they know the location of all sensitive unstructured data, including in e-mails and documents," notes Information Week Government. "Not knowing where their organization's sensitive or confidential data is located was the No. 1 worry of the IT security respondents, eclipsing both hacker attacks and insider threats, according to the study," the site says.
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