{"id":31778,"date":"2020-02-04T09:36:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T09:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=31778"},"modified":"2020-02-04T09:37:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T09:37:22","slug":"enterprises-exposed-to-massive-risk-as-45000-data-loss-incidents-are-missed-every-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2020\/02\/04\/enterprises-exposed-to-massive-risk-as-45000-data-loss-incidents-are-missed-every-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprises exposed as 45,000 data loss incidents are missed every month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, has released a new research study entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/enterprise\/en-us\/assets\/reports\/restricted\/rp-enterprise-supernova-data-dispersion.pdf\"><em>Enterprise Supernova: The Data Dispersion Cloud Adoption and Risk Report<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The results describe the broad distribution\nof data across devices and the cloud, highlighting critical gaps for enterprise\nsecurity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 79% percent of companies surveyed store\nsensitive data in the public cloud. While\nthese companies approve an average of 41 cloud services each, up 33% from last\nyear, thousands of other services are used ad-hoc without vetting. In addition,\n52% of companies use cloud services that have had user data stolen in a breach.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By leaving significant gaps into the\nvisibility of their data, organisations leave themselves open to loss of\nsensitive data and to regulatory non-compliance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cloud services\nhave replaced many business-critical applications formerly run as on-premises\nsoftware, leading to a migration of sensitive data to the cloud. Use of personal\ndevices when accessing cloud services, the movement of data between cloud\nservices and the sprawl of high-risk cloud services drive new areas of risk for\ncompanies using the cloud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For organisations\nto secure\ntheir data, they need a thorough understanding of where their data is and how\nit is shared &#8211; especially with the rapid adoption of cloud services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of\nthis report, McAfee surveyed 1,000 enterprise organisations\nin\n11 countries and investigated anonymised events from 30 million enterprise\ncloud users to gain a holistic view of modern data dispersion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report also reveals the following: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Shadow IT continues\nto expand enterprise risk: <\/strong>According to\nthe study, 26% of files in the cloud contain sensitive data, an increase of 23%\nyear-over-year. A total of 91% of cloud services also do not encrypt data at\nrest, meaning data isn\u2019t protected if the cloud provider is breached.<\/li><li><strong>Personal devices\nare black holes:<\/strong> A total of\n79% of companies allow access to enterprise-approved cloud services from personal\ndevices. One in four companies have had their\nsensitive data downloaded from the cloud to an unmanaged, personal device,\nwhere they can\u2019t see or control what happens to the data. <\/li><li><strong>Intercloud travel opens new paths to risk: <\/strong>Collaboration facilitates the\ntransfer of data within and between cloud services, creating a new challenge\nfor data protection. A total of 49% of files that enter a cloud service are\neventually shared. One in 10 files that contain sensitive data and are shared\nin the cloud use a publicly accessible link to the file, an increase of 111%\nyear-over-year.<\/li><li><strong>A new era of\ndata protection is on the horizon: <\/strong>A total of 93% of CISOs understand it\u2019s their responsibility to\nsecure data in the cloud. However, 30% of companies lack the staff with skills\nto secure their Software-as-a-Service applications, up 33% from last year. Both\ntechnology and training are outpaced by the rapid expansion of cloud.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe force of the cloud is unstoppable,\nand the dispersion of data creates new opportunities for both growth and risk,\u201d\nsaid Rajiv Gupta, Senior Vice President, Cloud Security, McAfee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSecurity that is data-centric, creating\na spectrum of controls from the device, through the web, into the cloud and\nwithin the cloud provides the opportunity to break the paradigm of yesterday\u2019s network-centric\nprotection that is not sufficient for today\u2019s cloud-first needs.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, has released a new research study entitled Enterprise Supernova: The Data Dispersion Cloud Adoption and Risk Report. The results describe the broad distribution of data across devices and the cloud, highlighting critical gaps for enterprise security. 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