A summary from our recent Ponemon Security survey on what is most concerning for CISO's today

1. Survey was conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Scale Venture Partners. 432 US IT ad IT security
practitioners directly involved in IT security and data protection were surveyed for this report.
Technology to solve
IT security risks
What keeps CISOs
up at night?
Not knowing where the organizations’
sensitive or confidential data
Not knowing the risk to
their data.
Data breach of sensitive
information
Feel the risk of a data breach is
increasing the most
Feel confident in current controls
used to mange data breach risk
Use automated solution to
understand how data needs
to be protected
Say they use data classification to
improve data security, followed
by data monitoring at 69%
Use an in house built solution
vs 45% using a vendor provided
solution
Unsure or disagree that their organizations’
believe in importance of protecting data
Have no set schedule to assess
the risk of sensitive data
Have no defined metrics to communicate the
business impact of their security programs
to management.
Don’t know what is being
tracked with those solutions
56% 51%
35%
65%
33%
64%
49%
74%
62%
60%
54%
66%
Lack of
communication
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