WILFUL BLINDNESS AND WISHFUL THINKING...

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Yesterday, an article on CBS Money Watch caught my eye: Businesses deluded about threat of cyber attack. The article was a short introduction to a recent survey conducted by Deloitte. And isn’t it spooky that the same old things keep cropping up everywhere?...
Unsurprisingly, the Deloitte report highlights that 88% of the businesses surveyed believe that they are not really at risk. As you would expect, they also identify lack of employee awareness and third party risks as top security vulnerabilities (46% of organisations don’t evaluate the security and privacy practices of vendors before sharing sensitive or confidential information, according to a recent Experian/Ponemon survey. If you’re not already fed up with trend predictions, see earlier blog post for my 2013 predictions.
But for me, these were not the most interesting points of the study...

GAZING AT 2013: THE RIGHT FOCUS AND THE RIGHT LANGUAGE...

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Well, it’s the New Year, and I wish you all the best for a fantastic 2013! I can’t believe my last post was in November! And it’s already the end of January! So I thought I’d get in quickly with my two pennies worth of crystal ball gazing before it becomes unfashionable... What did we learn from 2012? Are there any interesting market trends? How does it affect security? What is the current state of information security and how is it shaping up? Are we getting any better? If any of these questions spark your interest of if you’d just like to see if my Nostradamus impression has something in it, read on...