{"id":604,"date":"2015-07-14T13:33:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T17:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/?p=604"},"modified":"2015-08-06T10:11:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T14:11:29","slug":"large-percent-of-us-orgs-breached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/large-percent-of-us-orgs-breached\/","title":{"rendered":"55 Percent of US Organizations Have Suffered Security Breach, Survey Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/07\/centrify_survey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-605\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/07\/centrify_survey.jpg\" alt=\"centrify_survey\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/07\/centrify_survey.jpg 600w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/07\/centrify_survey-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>55 percent of US-based IT decision makers (ITDMs), and 45 percent of their UK counterparts say that their organizations have suffered a <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/the-worlds-largest-data-breaches-visualized\/\" target=\"_blank\">security breach<\/a> in the past, according to results from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centrify.com\/why-centrify\/corporate-perimeter-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\">a survey<\/a> recently conducted by Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Privileged Identity provider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centrify.com\" target=\"_blank\">Centrify<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The survey of 400 workers in the US and UK, which Centrify says was \u201caimed to find out if corporations are as secure as a need to be\u201d (spoiler: they aren\u2019t), was conducted between April 27 and April 30, 2015, and a 6.9 percent margin of error.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Cost of a Breach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With this survey, Centrify aims to look beyond front-page data breaches such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/how-can-iam-help-stop-cyber-attacks-8-best-practices\/\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Personnel Management<\/a>. and examine the cause and effect of data breaches on smaller organizations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"box box0\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/download-three-important-reasons-for-privileged-access-management-and-one-surprising-benefit\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-599 size-thumbnail alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/07\/Priviledged-Identity-Management-Three-Reasons-150x150.png\" alt=\"Priviledged Identity Management - Three Reasons\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/07\/Priviledged-Identity-Management-Three-Reasons-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/07\/Priviledged-Identity-Management-Three-Reasons-70x70.png 70w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/07\/Priviledged-Identity-Management-Three-Reasons-60x60.png 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/download-three-important-reasons-for-privileged-access-management-and-one-surprising-benefit\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Three Important Reasons for Privileged Access Management\u2014 and One Important Benefit<\/span>.<\/a><\/h4>\n<h6>In this free EMA white paper you\u2019ll learn:<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h6>The advantages and risks of High-Privilege Access<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6>How to assure confidence and security compliance with Privileged Access Management (PAM)<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6>\u00a0How to build better security through\u00a0PAM<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6>\u00a0How PAM can save you money by improving IT reliability<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><\/div><\/h4>\n<p>Financially, that cost can be quite high\u2014the average cost of a security breach is $3.79 million (USD), according to <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/study-reveals-data-breach-cost\/\">research from the Ponemon Institute<\/a>. Additionally, 2015 is on track to <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/2015-on-track-for-a-record-breaking-year-of-data-breaches\/\">break records<\/a> in both the number of breaches and in the number of records exposed via breach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Privileged Identity is a Risky Perimeter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As for the cause of those breaches, three-quarters of US ITDMs and more than half of UK ITDMs surveyed suggested that their organizations need to do a better job of monitoring who has access to their data.<\/p>\n<p>Centrify also identified some risky practices in the office\u2014 59 percent of US ITDMs and 34 percent of UK ITDMs said that sharing access credentials with other employees is at least somewhat common, and another 52 percent of US ITDMs said that they often share credentials with contractors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s corporate perimeter has nothing to do with physical headquarters,\u201d said Tom Kemp, CEO and co-founder of Centrify, in a prepared statement. The new perimeter, Kemp says, contains data that resides in the cloud and on the many devices that employees and contractors use in the field. \u201cIt\u2019s our hope that this survey helps convince IT decision makers to take steps now to enhance identity management before hackers find holes and exploit them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>55 percent of US-based IT decision makers (ITDMs), and 45 percent of their UK counterparts say that their organizations have suffered a security breach in the past, according to results from a survey recently conducted by Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Privileged Identity provider Centrify. The survey of 400 workers in the US and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24,11,25,10],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>55% of US Organizations Have Suffered Security Breach, Survey Finds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"55 percent of US-based IT decision makers (ITDMs), and 45 percent of their UK counterparts say that their organizations have suffered a security breach in the past\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/large-percent-of-us-orgs-breached\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeff Edwards\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/large-percent-of-us-orgs-breached\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/large-percent-of-us-orgs-breached\/\",\"name\":\"55% of US Organizations Have Suffered Security Breach, Survey Finds\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/large-percent-of-us-orgs-breached\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/large-percent-of-us-orgs-breached\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/07\/centrify_survey.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-07-14T17:33:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-08-06T14:11:29+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/#\/schema\/person\/3d31b4b6a777a91476a65c087be260e6\"},\"description\":\"55 percent of US-based IT decision makers (ITDMs), and 45 percent of their UK counterparts say that their organizations have suffered a security breach in the past\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/large-percent-of-us-orgs-breached\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/large-percent-of-us-orgs-breached\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/large-percent-of-us-orgs-breached\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/07\/centrify_survey.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/07\/centrify_survey.jpg\",\"width\":600,\"height\":300},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/large-percent-of-us-orgs-breached\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"55 Percent of US Organizations Have Suffered Security Breach, Survey Finds\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/\",\"name\":\"Best Identity Access Management (IAM) Software, Tools, Vendors, Solutions, &amp; 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