Reports Finds Mismatch Between Federal Beliefs On Data Security And Reality

摘要

Most federal government respondents to a recent data threat survey believe their data is secure but the same survey participants report that nearly one-third said they had been breached within the past year and little more than half have been breached at some time in their history, according to a new report. Federal agencies are increasingly moving their data to the cloud and 68 percent of respondents say that are in the midst of digitally transforming their organizations, says the report, which was sponsored by Thales. Digital transformation brings value but also creates a more complex security environment for data, the report says. It says that 54 percent of U.S. government data is stored in the cloud and 51 percent of that data is sensitive. Moreover, most agencies are using multi-cloud solutions, the report says. “All of this adds up to today’s data environments becoming increasingly complex,” says the federal edition of the 2020 Thales Data Threat Report. “This complexity and its impact on performance and processes are top barriers to data security.” In the past year, 29 percent of respondents reported their agencies had failed compliance audits, the report says.