{"id":22708,"date":"2023-01-23T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/2023\/01\/16\/lack-of-it-skills-greatest-data-security-challenge-australian-enterprises-face-2\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T11:23:07","slug":"lack-of-it-skills-greatest-data-security-challenge-australian-enterprises-face-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/2023\/01\/23\/lack-of-it-skills-greatest-data-security-challenge-australian-enterprises-face-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of IT skills greatest data security challenge Australian enterprises face&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rubrik, the Zero Trust data security company, has announced the Australian findings from its inaugural\u202f <em>State of Data Security report<\/em>, commissioned by Rubrik and conducted by Wakefield Research.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the key findings regarding the most pressing challenge, Australian cybersecurity leaders face in securing their organisation\u2019s data was \u2018insufficient talent in IT and SecOps\u2019, cited by 26% of respondents as the top security challenge.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 120 Australian respondents including CIOs, CISOs, IT and cybersecurity leaders were interviewed as part of Rubrik Zero Labs\u2019\u202f<em>The State of Data Security &#8211; The Human Impact of Cybercrime\u202freport<\/em>, with more than 1,600 leaders worldwide taking part in the research.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a lack of security talent, 96% of Australian security and IT leaders said they\u2019re concerned they won\u2019t be able to maintain Business Continuity if they experienced a cyberattack in the next year.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dale Heath, CTO at Rubrik Australia and New Zealand, said the spate of recent data breaches is collectively Australia\u2019s turning point, causing local business leaders to become acutely aware of the risk of cyberattacks: \u201cThe recent wave of cyberattacks have highlighted the lack of visibility and control organisations have into their environment. If you\u2019re unable to answer questions like \u2018what sensitive data do I have?\u2019 and, more importantly, \u2018where is that data stored?\u2019, how can you begin to understand the risk associated with it?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis \u2018Road to Damascus moment\u2019 is forcing Australian businesses to accept that a breach is inevitable \u2013 once you\u2019ve taken this crucial first step, the way you protect your sensitive data changes drastically.\u201d\u202f\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top five challenges local security leaders face in securing their data highlights a lack of essential resources \u2013 particularly skilled talent. When asked what their most pressing data security challenge was, Australian organisations cited:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Insufficient talent in IT and SecOps\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Insufficient budget for data security\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lack of cybersecurity tools and solutions in place\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Haven&#8217;t adequately addressed vulnerabilities from previous attacks\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Disagreement between different teams on how to protect against cyberattacks\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional Australian findings from the report include:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>When faced with ransomware specifically, 73% of\u202fAustralian respondents\u202fsaid they\u2019d consider paying the ransom with almost half\u202f(47%)\u202fsaying that they\u2019d be \u2018extremely\u2019 or \u2018very likely\u2019 to pay the ransom&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Although zero-day attacks receive much of the cybersecurity industry\u2019s attention, few Australian security leaders see it as their top threat in the coming year. The threats of most concern to local organisations were data breaches (31%), phishing (22%), denial of service attacks (17%), ransomware (16%), then zero-day exploits (14%)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rubrik, the Zero Trust data security company, has announced the Australian findings from its inaugural\u202f State of Data Security report, commissioned by Rubrik and conducted by Wakefield Research.\u202f&nbsp; Among the key findings regarding the most pressing challenge, Australian cybersecurity leaders face in securing their organisation\u2019s data was \u2018insufficient talent in IT and SecOps\u2019, cited by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":23200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1463,14,18,52,38,44,54],"tags":[157,76,2957,271],"class_list":["post-22708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apac","category-data-centres","category-enterprise-security","category-main-story-newsletter","category-analysis-research","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-apac","tag-australia","tag-data-security","tag-rubrik"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22708"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23291,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22708\/revisions\/23291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}