AST July 2018 Magazine AST July 2018 Magazine Issue 24

Only 19% report to increase spend- July 2018 Edition ing on data-at-rest solutions, which is ranked the most effective at preventing data breaches. Volume 25 In order for federal agencies to learn where they should spend their budget, they need to start asking the right questions. (Learn More. Cindy Provin, CEO of Thales eSecurity, discusses key findings from Thales eSecurity’s 2018 Data Threat Report, Global Edition.) Put your money where the data is The good news is that IT security spend- ing is up. According to the report, 93% of federal IT leaders say their agency’s spending will increase this year compared to last year’s participants (73%). • For example, will this solution meet compliance and best practice requirements for protecting data from external threats or malicious insiders? • Will this solution provide centralized key man- agement to streamline operations? • Will this solution allow us to confidently move sensitive data to a new hosted environment? The bad news, which unfortu- nately trumps the good, is that organizations are spending their money on the wrong solutions. Most respondents this year (56%) plan to increase spending on end- point and mobile devices, despite the fact that endpoint and mobile devices rank as least effective at pro- tecting sensitive federal data. 31

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