Fast-changing security threats overwhelm IT managers: survey

By Eric Auchard FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Security professionals are unable to keep pace with cybersecurity threats against companies as external and internal threats mushroom from both known and emerging technologies, a survey published on Wednesday showed. The study of just over 1,000 security professionals in the United States, Britain and Canada paints a picture of mounting pressures on organizations due to a shortage of necessary specialist skills, tight budgets and poor employee education. Forty-seven percent of security professionals now say the pressure to move their organizations to cloud-based Internet services from in-house computer systems has become their firm's biggest emerging threat, up from 25 percent a year ago. "Few white-collar professionals face as much mounting pressure as the information security trade," said a report analyzing the survey findings from Trustwave, a supplier of managed security services based in Chicago.



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