Securing and protecting enterprise data is at the center of the modern security plan. There are many considerations for organizations that aim to move critical workloads and data stores to the cloud, and understanding how business-critical data will be accessed, stored and secured is a paramount concern.
Organizations are also facing significant increases in regulations around data classification and data privacy. Regulators enforcing the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act are issuing fines, and courts are issuing decisions. The scope of how data privacy is regulated (and the impact that will have on organizations big and small) will add complexity to a crowded regulatory framework.
In an exclusive research study conducted for IBM, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) recently polled over 200 technical leaders and practitioners from organizations of 500 employees or more. They represented industries from 10 different verticals, providing a cross-section of organizations impacted by data privacy and security in different ways.
Some key takeaways from the study include:
Data Security: Nearly all of those surveyed (95.1%) indicated that data security is a critical or very important factor in their organization, and 74% have integrated data security and privacy as part of their organization’s overall security strategy.
Data Privacy: 82% of those surveyed are currently evaluating data privacy solutions, and almost three-quarters (74%) believe that their strategy regarding data privacy is a major differentiator in t ..
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