http://news.techworld.com/security/3453139/firms-take-10-hours-spot-data-breaches-mcafee-finds/
By John E Dunn
Techworld
17 June 2013
The average organisation believes it would spot a data breach in ten
hours, a McAfee global survey of IT professionals has found. But is that
result good, indifferent or an indication of the downright complacent?
The firm’s interrogation of 500 decision makers from the US, UK, Germany
and Australia earlier this year found that 22 percent thought they’d need
a day to recognise a breach, with one in twenty offering a week as a
likely timescale.
Just over a third said they would notice data breaches in a matter of
minutes, which counts as real-time by today’s standards.
In terms of general security, three quarters confidently reckoned they
could assess their security in real-time, with about the same number
talking up their ability to spot insider threats, perimeter threats and
even zero-day malware.
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