Businesses struggle with security priorities and limited employee awareness

More than half of IT security believe employees have little or no awareness about data protection or corporate security policies and cite identity awareness as a security priority for the next year.

According to research by Check Point and the Ponemon Institute, 53 per cent of IT administrators believe that data protection or corporate security policies awareness is a great concern, while 52 per cent said that the ability to manage policies by user is key to enforcing better security.

The survey of over 450 IT administrators in the UK and over 2,400 worldwide, in the US, France, Germany and Japan, showed that businesses struggle with a growing set of security priorities and limited employee awareness about corporate policies.