New research from IRM has revealed that almost two-thirds of companies don’t know the value of critical assets being targeted by hackers.
The firm’s Risky Business Report found as little as 28% of CISOs regularly carry out exercises to categorize and value the data within their IT estate to gain an understating of the risks linked to the loss of such information, and whilst 55% have taken partial action, 17% admitted to taking no action at all.
As a result, more than a third of CISOs have no clear view of what assets their business has, or where they are kept on the network.
Charles White, founder and CEO of IRM, argued that without a transparent understanding of the value of your data, it is far more difficult to build an effective risk strategy and determine how much should be invested to protect it. For the full article click here
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