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Survey reveals rise in unprotected enterprise endpoints |
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Check Point, which delivers Total Security for networks, data and endpoints, unified under a single management framework, shared the results from its global customer survey of businesses regarding endpoint security trends. It found that the number of remote workers continues to grow and businesses need to expand their IT measures to safeguard the increasing mobile workforce. According to the survey of 224 information technology and security administrators, over 40 percent of businesses in the last year have more remote users connecting to the corporate network from home or when traveling compared to 2008. Check Point says it discovered the clear majority (77 percent) of businesses have up to a quarter of their total workforce consists of regular remote users. Yet, regardless of the growth in remote users, Check Point found just 27 percent of respondents say their companies currently use hard disk encryption to protect sensitive data on corporate endpoints. Moreover, just nine percent of businesses surveyed use encryption for removable storage devices, such as USB flash drives. A more mobile workforce carrying large amounts of data on portable devices leaves confidential corporate data vulnerable to loss, theft and interception. “With less than 30 percent of businesses saying they use data encryption, the majority of corporations are left dangerously exposed to the risk of a serious data breach,” said Juliette Sultan, head of global marketing at Check Point. However, the data also revealed that enterprises recognize the need to address this issue, particularly with a growing mobile workforce. The survey revealed that approximately 47 percent of respondents plan to purchase an endpoint security solution in the next year with disk encryption (24 percent), NAC (22 percent) and media encryption (13 percent) being the most popular endpoint applications. Desktop antivirus (90 percent), antispyware (56 percent), personal firewalls (49 percent) and VPN clients (49 percent) remain the leading endpoint applications already deployed within the organizations surveyed. IT staff surveyed at companies with less than 5,000 employees also report they currently use endpoint products from an average of three different vendors in their organizations, causing security management issues. Larger enterprises use on average endpoint products from five different vendors and also feel the complexity is difficult to manage effectively. The Check Point survey covered a range of business sectors, with 18 percent respondents being from the finance sector, 14 percent from manufacturing and 11 percent from local or national government. Geographically, 44 percent were from North and South America, 42 percent from EMEA and 11 percent from Asia Pacific region. In terms of organisation size, 23 percent had up to 99 employees, 25 percent had 100 to 499 employees, 13 percent had 500 to 999, 24 percent had between 1,000 and 4,999 employees and 15 percent had more than 5,000 employees. |
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