Many organizations are responding to the increased popularity of mobile devices and social media with increases in security staffing. Security professionals are most concerned about targeted attacks, external hackers and insider threats. Mobile computing, social media and internet technologies make the security professional's jobs much more challenging.
According to reports, nearly 50 percent of IT security professionals say that external threats pose moderate to significant risks to their organizations, compared to 46 percent for accidental breaches by insiders and 44 percent for malicious insiders, according to the survey conducted by Symantec called the 2011 state of security survey, released August 31. Many organizations rank cyber attacks as bigger risks to their businesses than other forms of criminal activity or natural disasters.
Mobile computing, social media and internet technologies were the top trends in the industry making enterprise security more challenging. Many organizations also think that securing platforms and data was significantly more important than it was 12 months ago. According to the report, 29 percent of organizations see attacks on a regular basis and 71 percent had been attacked at least once in the previous 12 months. The top kinds of attacks were malicious code, social engineering and other external attacks.
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