Lack of security experts put companies at risk: McAfee
February 1, 2007
The recent increase in government information-security regulations is causing staffing problems for companies, according to a recent McAfee study. The report, commissioned by McAfee and conducted by Dr. Jonathan Liebenau, senior lecturer in information systems, Department of Management at the London School of Economics, suggests businesses are struggling to locate IT security resources in order to comply with regulations and warned corporate reputations can be damaged by disclosure and compliance laws. Many businesses report being reliant on a limited number of specialists who can manage information risks and understand compliance. When these employees leave it is often very difficult to replace them. Dr. Liebenau found that by mid-2006, reports of security breaches in the U.S. were numbering between eight and 10 per week. To date, almost 94 million records containing sensitive personal information have been involved in security breaches. “The mandatory reporting of security breaches will have far-reaching implications on a business’ reputation management,” said Dr. Liebenau. “The practice of reporting breaches, now commonplace in the United States and quickly spreading to several regions in the world, will impact the way individuals and organizations think about information handling in general and reputation protection in particular.”
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