Making IT security matter
Tech Panel Last year, Freeform Dynamics surveyed the attitudes of tech professionals into IT security.
We found that IT security’s most important raison d'etre was to assure day-to-day operations – that is, keeping the business running (Figure 1).
Many organisations do not practice entirely what they preach, however. While nearly three quarters of IT staff were reputed to take security seriously (of course there couldn’t be any bias from our IT-professional Register audience), only a quarter of respondents reported that the general workforce in their organisations do the same. This is a little alarming, even if you take into account the possibly skewed opinions of our survey respondents.
To ensure that IT security isn’t deprioritised to the point of irrelevance, it’s worth reiterating how it can play its part. The first thing to keep in mind is that IT security is as much about securing business assets and resources using IT, as it is about securing the IT itself. Three broad areas need protection:
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