Bigdata
Now Reading
Human error as the greatest risks to enterprise data
0

Human error as the greatest risks to enterprise data

Human error as the greatest risks to enterprise data : Oracle released survey results of 353 Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) database and IT professionals, which examines the state of enterprise database security, where the biggest risks lie, and how organizations can improve upon their security strategies.

The survey, conducted by Unisphere Research and sponsored by Oracle, polled 353 IOUG database security managers, database administrators, and directors or managers of IT in companies spanning various industries including IT services, government, education, utilities, transportation, and financial services. Although the survey results show that organizations have a high commitment to enterprise security, it spotlights how ill-prepared most organizations are to both internal and external threats.

Overall, the survey results indicate that organizations have weak preventive, detective, and administrative security controls, including limited internal controls on privileged users, lack of knowledge of where sensitive data resides, and inadequate monitoring of privileged-user activities.

While 58 percent of respondents noted that databases were the most vulnerable part of their IT environment, the majority invested in securing areas of less risk such as the network, servers, and desktops.

More than three-fourths (81 percent) of respondents see human error as the greatest risk to enterprise data, followed by a fear of inside attacks (65 percent). Other concerns included access privilege abuse from IT staff (54 percent) and malicious code and viruses in their systems (53 percent).

Despite these human risks, many respondents indicated they have relatively few safeguards in place against accidental or intentional staff abuse. Alarmingly, almost 40 percent of those surveyed admitted to not knowing which databases had sensitive or regulated information and 71 percent lacked safeguards or were unsure if any were in place to combat accidental harm to databases and applications. Today’s complex data environments may be affecting respondents’ abilities to implement comprehensive data protection efforts.

Only 18 percent of respondents encrypt data at rest on all their databases. Further, only 46 percent of the respondents were redacting sensitive application data, leaving the rest open to casual users of those applications.

Despite the well understood risks with proliferation of production data to non production environment, 45 percent of respondents use copies of production data for test and development and 41 percent of them have three or more copies of production data.

 

What's your reaction?
Love It
0%
Very Good
0%
INTERESTED
0%
COOL
0%
NOT BAD
0%
WHAT !
0%
HATE IT
0%