IT professionals are feeling under increasing pressure from the threat of cyber attacks according to a new study. The research by Trustwave includes feedback from more than 1000 professionals from the US, Canada and UK and found that 54 per cent felt more pressure to secure their organizations in 2014 with 57 per cent expecting more pressure this year. The pressure was felt more at larger companies (64 per cent) than SMB’s (48 per cent). Among the biggest issues discovered were; being pressured to unveil IT projects that were not security ready (77 per cent); emerging risks such as cloud technologies and employees’ own devices; insufficient manpower in cybersecurity teams. The report also shows that business owners and executives are adding pressure on IT teams to boost cybersecurity (61 per cent, up from 50 per cent last year) and that the biggest concern of the IT pros is reputational damage as the result of data breach (84 per cent said that was their top concern.)
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