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Data Assets at Risk from IT Security Misvaluation

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Ponemon research finds that IT Security underestimates the value of
business assets by more than 50 percent

ATLANTA (BUSINESS WIRE) #AI IT Security departments are incorrectly estimating the value of business

information, leading to insufficient investment into the availability,

protection and security of the most commercially valuable types of

documents a business holds, according to new research from the

Ponemon

Institute

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Data Assets at Risk from IT Security Misvaluation

The research, which was commissioned by leading data management company DocAuthority ,

surveyed 2,827 professionals in the United States and United Kingdom

across seven functional areas. The results found that when asked to

estimate the monetary value of different types of business information,

IT Security departments undervalued documents including research and

development (R&D) and financial reports, while excessively prioritizing

less sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data.

This increases the chance of a major data breach, the mishandling of

access rights for employees, and the application of incorrect levels of

security to low-value documents:

IT Security departments estimated the value of R&D documents at less
than 50 percent of what the business would estimate their worth,
predicting that it would cost $306,545 to reconstruct an R&D document
compared to $704,619 as estimated by the R&D department itself IT Security departments also underestimated financial impact of a
financial report being leaked, at $131,570 versus the $303,182 that
the Finance department believes it would incur from this incident In contrast, IT Security departments overvalued monthly salary lists
at $94,148, compared $57,477, the value attributed to the same asset
by Human Resources

“Typically, the security and protection of business data is considered

to be the responsibility of the IT Security department. Yet it’s clear

from this research that IT Security does not have the vitally-important

context required to understand the true value of that data, and in turn

create an effective strategy for defending it,” says Doctor Larry

Ponemon, Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute. “Rather than

being relegated to IT, data and its protection should be the concern of

not only management level, but the business as a whole.”

Steve Abbott, the CEO of DocAuthority, comments: “Only around five

percent of data retained by businesses will be crucial to running the

current and future organization. Despite this, most businesses still

apply unrepresentative, or ‘one size fits all’ levels of security to

their data assets. Businesses need to consider how they can take a more

strategic and cost-effective approach by identifying critical data that

is worth security investment. While a manual scan of unstructured data

held by a typical 5,000 seat organization could take up to 400 years,

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can help businesses identify and

categorize data with an unprecedented level of accuracy, in a rapid

timeframe.”

Steve Abbott adds, “It’s important to consider that obscurity around

data could have far reaching ramifications. Despite company data being a

hugely valuable business asset, organizations rarely have a clear view

of what they own and what it’s worth. As a result, within the context of

a sale for example, data assets are likely to be overlooked as part of a

business’s valuation. We are confident that this will change as the

business world starts to understand how data can impact a business’s

bottom line.”

Notes to editors

Ponemon has developed a framework of six criteria to more accurately

assess the value of corporate data. By assigning a rank of the

importance of each element on a scale of 1 = not important to 10 =

essential, they have a better chance of aligning their security strategy

with their most valuable assets:

Intrinsic value Pertains to how correct, complete and
exclusive is this data Business value Relates to how good and relevant is this data
for specific purposes Performance value Pertains to how does this data affect key
business drivers Cost value Refers to what would it cost the organization if
the data was lost or leaked outside Market value Links to what your organization can earn from
selling or trading this information Economic value Pertains to how the information contributes to
the organization’s bottom line

The full report can be accessed here: http://bit.ly/2QlbO24

About DocAuthority

DocAuthority is a leading document control solutions company. It offers

organizations a broad, yet business-friendly, security policy utilizing

AI to help automatically discover and accurately identify unstructured

and unprotected sensitive documents to help prevent them from falling

into the wrong hands. DocAuthority works with enterprise-size

organizations in all sectors including the healthcare, retail,

technology, energy, public sector, telcos, services and financial

services sectors to help these businesses understand the risk they face

and design an effective mitigation plan to improve the security of

sensitive data. Founded by Ariel Peled and Itay Reved in 2013,

DocAuthority is a global company headquartered in Raanana, Israel and is

managed by the people who pioneered DLP. To learn more about

DocAuthority, visit www.DocAuthority.com .

Contacts

General enquiries:

Mike Quinn,

DocAuthority

E: mike.quinn@docauthority.com

U.S. media enquiries:

April Burghardt

Waters

Communications

E: april@waterscomms.com


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