AST July 2018 Magazine AST July 2018 Magazine Issue 24 | Page 69

and
in data centers.
Volume 25
A good example of this is the 47 percent of re-
spondents who plan to implement ‘bring your
own key’ solutions to remotely manage their
cloud deployments, which will assist them in
better protecting and controlling their data.
Did respondents report any perceived barriers
July 2018 Edition
to cybersecurity protection?
According to the survey respondents, complex-
ity, business impact, and a lack of funding are
all adoption barriers to modern cybersecurity
protection.
However, many respondents remained
hopeful and 53 percent of respondents
hoped to implement best practices to
help them remove these barriers.
What steps need to be taken to ensure
data security?
(Learn More. Thales eSecurity Senior Director of Security Strategy John
Grimm discusses key findings from the Thales 2018 Global Encryption
Trends Study.
Overall security spending is up, b ut how effec-
tive is it?
Unfortunately, we’re not spending our IT secu-
rity dollars where it will protect data best.
Organizations need to adopt a de-
fense-in-depth approach, move away
from an over-reliance on network and
endpoint security, and create a com-
prehensive data-centric approach to
securing their agencies.
With increasingly porous networks,
and expanding use of external resources (SaaS,
PaaS and IaaS most especially) traditional
endpoint and network security are no longer
sufficient.
When implemented as a part of the initial de-
velopment (for ease of implementation versus
retrofitting at a later date), data security – most
especially, encryption – offers increased pro-
tection to known and unknown sensitive data
On the surface this may appear encouraging,
but a deeper dive reveals 56 percent still plan found within advanced technology environ-
to spend the most on endpoint security and 48 ments.
percent on network security.
The alternative? Federal agencies will continue
Only 19 percent will spend the most on da-
ta-centric security solutions, such as encryption to suffer, and we will see even higher breach
rates next year.
and tokenization.
36
While cloud computing security is not a top
budget priority, almost all (93 percent) of re-
spondents are increasing spending this year.