Information Security: A Growing Need of Businesses and Industries Worldwide [Infographics]

In a survey of businesses worldwide almost every industry surveyed had experienced an information security-based incident at some point in time. In the survey conducted, respondents covered numerous industries with the majority being from the Information Technology side and making up 10.9% of all those surveyed. This is followed by industries such as financial services, education, the Federal Government, health and manufacturing, in that order, among others. 41% of this mix admitted to having faced a security threat.

Almost 75% of major organizations today encourage staff to use their personal devices to connect to corporate systems. In small businesses, this stands at 61%. As a result, almost 82% of large companies have reported a breach of security by their own staff.

As information security becomes more of a priority in the future, here are a few things your organization can start doing now to protect itself:

• Implement a privacy and data security plan
• Conduct an inventory of potential data targets
• Develop a privacy policy
• Protect data collected online
• Create levels of security
• Plan ahead for data loss

A Network Security plan is also needed, and of course the ability to create strong passwords is a must to better handle security issues.

To learn more about information security and businesses, take a look below at the infographic created by the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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