September 7, 2007—What keeps security administrators awake at night? It could be the latest attack, or a newly-discovered vulnerability in the systems. But according to a report by Forrester Research and RSA Security, creating a security policy is still the biggest nightmare for most chief security officers.
Sixty-two percent of respondents consider the enforcement of existing company policies to be their most pressing driver in ensuring that data is properly secured. However, controlling the rising costs of ongoing compliance with those policies is becoming a burden, and 33 percent of the respondents—the majority response to this question—said compliance costs are too high.
Fifty-five percent of respondents said they have data security policies that are either outdated or require significant changes to bring them in line with regulatory and company mandates.
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