Data theft still on the rise despite more IT spend: Survey

The fact that data theft is still an issue is not surprising to most anyone in the IT sector. For instance, Brennan O’ Hara, solution manager for Seattle-based Attachmate division, NetIQ that released the survey of over 200 IT “decision makers”, said that “although all this money and technology is being thrown at the problem, if you have a terabyte’s worth of data to dig through and you are under-staffed as an organization, under-resourced as an IT organization, it’s going to be very difficult for you to properly spend the time to navigate through all that data.” Brian O’Higgins, president of Ottawa-based Brian O’Higgins and Associates, said “the whole thing is not surprising.” O’Higgins said “there’s more attack vectors every day as IT evolves. We have greater bandwidth, technology is easier to use, we have all these little devices that store a lot of stuff and we have cloud services with more and more information,” so basically “more attack vectors (means) more opportunities for bad guys to do stuff.” O’Hara said the data was interesting, at least in as much as it may identify some of the problems IT faces. Some of the more interesting statistics from the study include the fact “that 64 per cent (of respondents) cited lack of time to monitor vast amounts of data and another set of folks, 55 per cent, said that they were unable to manage security in a cloud or virtual environment.” O’Higgins vigorously agreed with that sentiment. He said “security is not solved at all, and I don’t know if it ever will be.” O’Higgins suggested that a more pragmatic approach to security is case models. He said businesses need to spend more time looking to successful models in their industry and then trying to be just a little better. “I don’t have to be faster than the bear, I just need to be faster than you,” O’Higgins said.

From the story: "55 per cent, said that they were unable to manage security in a cloud or virtual environment.”

Oh boy....Where to start with this one. I can assure these 55 percent of respondents that you can absolutely secure cloud and virtual environments. It is a matter of knowing what you want to do and how you will do it PRIOR to deployment. The first question as far as cloud is concerned is: What is cloud friendly and what is not to begin picking at the low-lying fruit. In the virtualization realm (no, they are not the same thing), the question is: What level of security is required for each server on a particular hypervisor? How is the Hypervisor and management plane secured?

Berenstain Bears – “Summer” Book Package Review & Giveaway ...

BERENSTAIN BOOKS by Jan and Mike Berenstain

Stan and Jan Berenstain introduced their first books in 1962.  Stan died in 2005 and his son Mike with his mom continue to create the delightful Bear adventures.  What I just discovered is the Berenstain Bears have a new line of books called “LIVING LIGHTS“ which helps children learn how God want them to live everyday.  All these “Living Light” books have great morals and are under the banner of  ZONDERKIDZ which is the children’s division of Zondervan for those ages 15 and under.

These lovable Berenstain Bears burst back onto the scene with  inspiring  kids books.  I am excited to review this time three hard cover books:  The Trouble with Secrets; Reap the Harvest; and Let the Bible Be Your Guide.

Enter another current giveaway and please tell me which one(s) you entered (one entry for each giveaway you enter).  You can come back to make more entries  because more giveaways will be posted this week.

Giveaway ends August 18, 2011 at 9 pm EST.  Open to CANADA only.  We will be using Random.org and I will contact the potential winner who will  have 48 hours to contact me back via email with their mailing address so that all the books can be mailed.

Thanks goes to the sponsor who allowed me the opportunity to provide my readers with a book review.

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