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Majority of Indian IT managers clueless how bandwidth is being consumed: Sophos
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SME Times News Bureau | 25 Apr, 2018
Nearly 57 percent Indian IT managers can't identify network traffic
while 61 per cent dont know how their bandwidth is consumed, a new
report said on Wednesday, adding that the majority of Indian IT managers
have legal liabilities when it comes to unidentified traffic at their
workplaces.
According to British IT security company Sophos'
global survey titled "The Dirty Secrets of Network Firewalls," 89 per
cent of Indian IT heads opined that stopping malware threats have become
harder over the last year
"While 94 percent agree that stopping
ransomware should be a top priority in organisations, a lack of
effective application visibility is a serious security concern for 90
percent of Indian businesses," said the report.
The survey polled
more than 2,700 IT decision makers across mid-sized businesses in 10
countries worldwide, including India, the US, Canada, Mexico, France,
Germany, the UK, Australia, Japan and South Africa.
"Controlling
network traffic is an essential role of every firewall yet, 61 per cent
IT managers can't tell you how their bandwidth is being consumed," said
Sunil Sharma, Managing Director Sales at Sophos India & Saarc.
"If
you can't see everything on your network, you can't ever be confident
that your organisation is protected from threats. IT professionals have
been 'flying blind' for too long and cybercriminals take advantage of
this," Sharma noted.
About 79 per cent of IT heads face security risks from unwanted or unnecessary apps.
"While
72 per cent want to see applications by risk levels through their
organisation's firewall, 60 per cent concerned on productivity loss due
to unwanted apps and 52 per cent had legal liability or compliance
concerns due to potentially illegal content," the report said.
Considering
the debilitating impact cyber attacks can have on a business, it's
unsurprising that 90 per cent of respondents agree that a lack of
application visibility is a serious security concern.
The survey
further stated that 61 per cent would like to see better perimeter
security in their organisation's network firewall along with better
threat visibility and better protection. "Ineffective
firewalls are costing you time and money. On an average, organisations
are spending 7 working days to remediate infected machines," said
Sharma. A single network breach often leads to the compromise of
multiple computers, so the faster you can stop the infection from
spreading the more you limit the damage and time needed to clean it up.
"Companies
are looking for the kind of next-generation, integrated network and
endpoint protection that can stop advanced threats and prevent an
isolated incident from turning into a widespread outbreak," Sharma
informed.
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