To stay competitive in a digital-first world, organizations must be able to innovate anywhere, automate anything, scale everything, and most importantly, empower everyone. But doing so requires IT governance at scale and the highest levels of IT security and compliance.
How are IT leaders juggling these demands in the new hybrid workplace? Pulse and Salesforce surveyed 300 InfoSec and IT executives to find out. Get the key findings and data security best practices in this summary and the pages that follow.
- Security Takes on the Distributed-Team Challenge
Ninety percent of surveyed IT leaders say that their organization supports a distributed workforce. But they note major compliance, vendor management, and data security difficulties in doing so. Despite these challenges, the majority report high levels of international data compliance.
- Three Security Threats to Get Ahead Of
Ongoing threats continue to make data security an unpredictable, and often treacherous, terrain to navigate. IT leaders are most concerned about phishing, ransomware, and DOS/ DDOS attacks. But respondents across the software, manufacturing, and professional services sectors note insider breaches among their top three concerns.
- Three Must-Have Tools for Your Data Security Toolkit
IT leaders frequently use employees as the first line of defense against attacks. In addition to employee vigilance, 77% report multifactor authentication as a top security tactic. Identity access management is a close second, with 72% reporting it as a best practice. Surprisingly, there’s one glaring gap in the IT leaders’ security arsenal: backup and restore solutions. Only 41% say it’s a core component of their security strategy.
- Look Ahead: The Top Data Security Tactics for 2022
Most predict that threats will continue to rage on this year. IT leaders across the board expect the finance, government, and healthcare sectors to be targeted the most by cyberattacks. However, qualitative feedback indicates hope for more and better tools to predict and eliminate threats.
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