Risk assessment and risk management are key elements in a successful security strategy because the threat landscape continues to expand with the explosion of IoT. Devices are everywhere, and everyone is connecting to the network causing headaches for security management professionals.   LogMeIn recently polled 500 IT professionals on the array of challenges ongoing in their security threat landscape. Not surprisingly, cloud security, devices, and user behavior are some of the most often reported pain points for IT professionals”.

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“User training has to move up on the security management list so that awareness of risk stays at the forefront of people’s minds, even as technology continues to change. Of those surveyed, 86 percent of respondents said they are confident that their security measures are effective, and 30 percent believe there is nothing else they could do to protect their company.  Ongoing, purposeful, and relevant communication with everyone in the enterprise is one thing they can do that won’t dip into the security piggy bank. In order for security to evolve along with technology, teams must adopt a security-minded awareness to keep data breaches from affecting their system”.

Kacy Zurkus for CSO,  edited & excerpted from her article, “Woe is IT, the pain of risk management”  click here to read the article in its entirety.

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