INTERVIEW
for good and an enabler . However , people are still unsure about where they can best find security help and how they ’ re able to do that .” There ’ s also an interesting disparity in the report between large organisations and small organisations . On average , 41 % said they ’ re unsure about who could help them with information challenges , but that figure rises by an additional 19 % when talking about small to medium-sized businesses .
What makes this report so relevant though , is that data , and the safety of it , which has never been as important as it is right now . Most of us are now experiencing large parts of our daily lives in the virtual world and all of the data we produce by doing so is gathered and harvested .
In the business world , how well a company stores and safeguards that data can be a key component of customer confidence . You just have to look at what happened to shares in Sony after its massive data breach two years ago .
According to the report , which generation you come from has a lot to do with how you feel about the issue of data security .
Kawalec explains : “ When we started to think about age and its relation to the perception of risk , under-35- year-olds , the real digital leaders of new business , 91 % of them feel that security budgets will not only need to rise but that security is a central issue . And these are not digitally naïve teenagers , these are young business leaders who understand the value of data in a digital world .
“ Their uncertainty and fear about data loss was much reduced , at 40 %
10 November 2017