If your organization is saying ?no? to new innovations such as cloud services, BYOD and social networking sites in order to reduce the risk of a security breach, chances are that you?re actually less secure than the enterprises that are saying ?yes? and adopting technology responsibly. ?
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Becoming a ?yes? organization is just one of five key recommendations offered in the 2013 TELUS-Rotman IT Security Study. For this fifth annual study, our research team conducted roundtable discussions and face-to-face interviews with senior security professionals across the country. By taking a qualitative approach, we were able to validate our quantitative findings from previous years and capture personalized insight on the security issues that are keeping your peers awake at night. These top-of-mind concerns include:
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- Has my organization been breached, and I don?t know about it?
- How will a breach affect my brand?
- What are my employees doing with corporate data?
- How do I retain my security resources?
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What we found in exploring these themes is that most IT security managers believe that a security breach is inevitable, and lack confidence in their organizations? ability to detect the breach to mitigate possible damage.
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Canadian organizations also seem to have a ?misplaced emphasis? around security risks, focusing their efforts on external vulnerabilities. This approach is not fool proof because employees are often the weakest link in the IT security chain.
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So, while enterprises think they are becoming more secure by outlawing in-demand technologies, the irony is that these ?no? organizations are actually becoming much more susceptible to a breach when employees inevitably circumvent security measures and leverage the technology outside of the organization?s visibility and control.
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Therefore, when employees request the use of a new (or popular) technology, we recommend that organization?s work with them to adopt it responsibly. By saying ?yes? and discussing the benefits and risks of using these technologies with employees, you are giving IT security more control and visibility into the environment, and as a result, making your organization more secure.
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?Organizations should work to be ?yes? organizations? is just one of five comprehensive recommendations in the 2013 TELUS-Rotman IT Security Study. For four more ways to help your organization position security as an enabler of innovation, download the full report at TELUS.com/SecurityStudy.
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After you?ve read the study, please let us know if you have any questions or comments. We?d love to hear your thoughts on our 5 recommendations, and if you believe they can help your organization become more innovative and secure.
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Yogen Appalraju is the Vice-President of Security Solutions at TELUS.
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