More than half of IT pros believe their organization was breached at least once in 2017

A new study of 165 IT and security professionals at medium-sized companies across the US reveals that 53 percent believe their organization was breached one or more times in 2017. The report from security-as-a-service company Cygilant shows a lack of confidence in respondents ability to protect customer data, with only 16.6 percent very confident that they can successfully protect customer data. In addition 68 percent of those surveyed cite a lack of company resources, including budget and time, as a top cyber security challenge. 80.5 percent say they have underfunded IT security budgets or no budget at all. Among other… [Continue Reading]