Security Worries Federal IT Bosses
Working to improve network security doesn’t ease security concerns, at least among government officials. Federal IT decision makers are more concerned about security than in previous years, even after spending more time attending to security than in the past, according to a survey of 200 agency officials. Things are so bad that half of the federal respondents claim they’re not getting any sleep. Bots and spyware lead the list of network security worries cited by those surveyed. Asked, “On a scale of one to five, where one is ’sleep like a baby’ and five is ‘do not sleep a wink,’ to what extent do the following security issues or concerns keep you up at night?”, the percentage respondents answering with a four or five — which more or less qualifies as insomnia — was as follows: bots and spyware (56%), reduced operation and service delivery due to security breach (55%), inadequately trained and unconcerned users (53%), loss of privacy of employee data due to security breach (51%), loss of privacy of citizen data due to security breach (50%).