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security problems
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Organisations that do not
have a clear longer-term
security roadmap in place
are putting themselves at
risk of being compromised,
according to Jon Tullett,
Research Manager – IT
Services for Sub-Saharan
Africa at International
Data Corporation (IDC).
T
he first step in creating this roadmap
is to start getting your security under
control. This includes using analytics
for behaviour anomaly detection at both a
network and user level, gathering the data to
do baseline profiling.
Organisations must consider technologies
that play to the cloud and be prepared to
evolve with the technology. User awareness
and training also remain key fundamentals
that are receiving enough attention.
Currently, training budgets are horrifically
small and that must be addressed.
Start by spending the money, but more
importantly, evolve that training over time.
Today, the breach is a credential theft or
phishing attack. Companies that tackle
that, and really invest in training, see
tremendous reductions.
Once organisations have this under control
and have done th