Today Druva Inc. announced the results of a global survey that examined data privacy in the enterprise. The survey specifically looked at protecting sensitive data, the challenges of ensuring data privacy, and views on protecting data privacy in the cloud. The survey was conducted by Dimensional Research and sponsored by Druva.
Today Druva Inc. announced the results of a global survey that examined data privacy in the enterprise. The survey specifically looked at protecting sensitive data, the challenges of ensuring data privacy, and views on protecting data privacy in the cloud. The survey was conducted by Dimensional Research and sponsored by Druva.
The survey reveals the challenges and concerns companies have with protecting data and data privacy as they adapt new infrastructure such as the cloud. Not only do companies have to deal with these concerns they also have to comply with regional regulations as they make changes and adjust. The more concerning aspect of the survey is how data security is being treated as an afterthought in some cases.
Druva’s solution implements a rich set of privacy controls to enable customers the ability to keep pace with evolving requirements. The solution includes advanced policy settings restricting employee data and audit trails from being accessible to administrators, delegated and granular administrative settings that allow for management segregation by region, and exclusionary policies that ensure personal data can be properly segregated.
Key findings include:
- 99% of respondents reported having sensitive data, including personal financial, healthcare and authentication-related data, they must manage.
- 84% of respondents reported plans to boost efforts to protect the privacy of sensitive data.
- Almost 84% of respondents reported that employees do not follow data privacy policies.
- Nearly 90% of respondents indicated that their volume of data stored in the cloud will increase through 2015.
- 87% of companies reported being “concerned” or “very concerned” about data privacy in the cloud.
- 81% reported their business has data privacy requirements they must meet for compliance and governance regulations.
- 93% indicated they face challenges ensuring data privacy.
- 82% have employees who do not follow data privacy policies and among those, employees in sales and marketing are “most likely to ignore data privacy policies.”
- 56% cited “insufficient employee awareness and understanding of data privacy policies” as a major challenge to ensure privacy of sensitive data.
- 67% reported that meeting regional requirements for data privacy is challenging.
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