Checklist created for Windstream around Cloud Security and keeping your data protected.

1. SECURITY CONCERNS AND PREPAREDNESS
More than half
indicated insufficient preparation to manage cyber threats is a risk that
will "significantly impact" their organizations this year.” 1
think their organization may not be sufficiently prepared to
manage cyber threats that have the potential to significantly
disrupt core operations and/or damage their brand.1
53%
"Our survey findings
indicate that operational risk
issues are keeping
many senior executives
up at night.”
Mark Beasley, Deloitte Professor of
Enterprise Risk Management and NC
State ERM Initiative director.
What are the top executives' security concerns?
How do you plan to address them?
1 Protivity, “Cybersecurity Concerns Rise as a Risk Factor for Board Members and Senior Executives in 2015”
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cybersecurity-concerns-rise-as-a-risk-factor-for-board-members-and-senior-executives-in-2015-300032571.html
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2. COMPLIANCE—LIMITING RISKS
#1 risk identified by Proclivity
Survey respondents:
67%
think regulatory changes and
heightened regulatory scrutiny
may affect the manner in which
their products or services will
be produced or delivered.1
“Compliance is about more
than prevention.
It’s also about navigating
opportunities.”2
Are you confident you’re compliant?
Are you certain of all of your
compliance obligations?
Top compliance issues of 2014:
28%35%
90%
1 Protivity, “Cybersecurity Concerns Rise as a Risk Factor for Board Members and Senior Executives in 2015”
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cybersecurity-concerns-rise-as-a-risk-factor-for-board-members-and-senior-executives-in-2015-300032571.html
2 PWC, Regulatory and Compliance Reporting, http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/audit-services/regulatory-compliance/index.jhtml
3 Bureau Van Dijk, “Spread of regulatory action outside US 'the top compliance issue of 2014”
http://www.bvdinfo.com/industrynews/compliance-and-due-diligence/spread-of-regulatory-action-outside-us-the-top-compliance-issue-of-2014-/801768161#sthash.XyASNoN0.dpuf
4 Michael Weiss, “Finance Executives Don’t Expect Regulatory Compliance Demands to Ease,” Robert Half Management Resources http://blog.roberthalfmr.com/finance-executives-do-not-expect-regulatory-compliance-demands-to-let-up
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spread of
regulatory action
outside of the US.3
anti-money
laundering
rules.3
Executives that expect their compliance costs
to rise or stay the same over time.4

3. EMPLOYEES CAN MAKE OR BREAK SECURITY
“Spend any time talking
with IT security experts and
you’re likely to hear a
common refrain: employees
are the weakest link in any
organization’s defenses.”
Daniel Humphries, “Survey: What Employ-
ees (Don’t) Know about IT Security
Policies,” Intelligent Defense 5
Do you have the talent you need?
Do your employees know the risks and
how to minimize them?
“There is an IT security skills shortage that’s occurring right as
the volume and sophistication of cyber and physical attacks
continues to rise.”6
- Diane Ritchey, “Why the Security Talent Gap is the Next Big Crisis,” Security Magazine
5 Danial Humphries, “Survey: What Employees (Don’t) Know about IT Security Policies,” Intelligent Defensehttp://intelligent-defense.softwareadvice.com/what-employees-dont-know-security-policies-0714/
6 Diane Ritchey, “Why the Security Talent Gap is the Next Big Crisis,” Security Magazinehttp://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/85451-why-the-security-talent-gap-is-the-next-big-crisis
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slightly less than
50% 26%
only
43%were confident they
remembered the contents
of their company’s
security policy.5
of respondents received
training more than once
to reinforce policy
awareness.5
could remember seeing
password security rules
in their company’s
security policy.5

4. PROTECTING CUSTOMER DATA
But…
“... [Home Depot]
announced last week that
more than 53 million
customer email addresses
in addition to payment card
information had been
compromised in a hack
attack. The attack will cost
Home Depot more than $62
million and is likely to cost
much more…”
Bianca Wright,
Customer Experience Report7
How safe is your customer data?
What attacks are you, and are you not armed against?
up 25%
from 20138
up 34%
from 20139
Global information security budgets actually decreased
four percent compared with 2013.
Security spending as a percentage of IT budget has remained
stalled at 4 percent or less for the past five years.9
7 Bianca Wright, Customer Experience Report. http://www.customerexperiencereport.com/nearshore/latest-home-depot-data-theft-shows-importance-protecting-customer-security/
8 Lauren Abdel-Razzaq, Detroit News. http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/retail/2014/11/23/retailers-focus-protecting-customers-data-breaches/19466287/
9 “Cybersecurity Incidents More Frequent and Costly, but Budgets Decline says PwC, CIO and CSO Global State of Information Security® Survey 2015”
http://press.pwc.com/Global/cybersecurity-incidents-more-frequent-and-costly-but-budgets-decline-says-pwc-cio-and-cso-global-sta/s/59769a8f-b9f7-43e1-8b54-2628b18ef586
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