Almost Half of Companies Believe Their Security is 'Good Enough'

With reports of massive data breaches becoming almost a regular event in the company, it is obvious that most companies do not dare to rest on their existing security practices. Well, a recent report by CompTIA, this is not the case at all.

According to professional security practices, published on Tuesday, almost half of the security professionals in the company believes that current security practices of their companies are "good enough". While not necessarily a bad thing to be proud of working in an organization, it may signal a dangerous level of complacency with regard to safety.

Interestingly, however, this does not seem to reflect the increasing priority of security in enterprise IT. As noted in the report of CompTIA, research firm Gartner expects the security market the company will have a value of $ 100.3 billion in 2019 worldwide.

So if that many security professionals believe their work is "good enough", so they must be doing something right, right? Well, let's take a look at how CompTIA by the modern approach to security.

First, most modern security policies consist of three distinct movements:

1.    Change away from the security perimeter
2.    Balance prevention and detection
3.    Greater focus on proactive security activities

There are a number of new technologies that play in these movements. The proliferation of cloud, mobile and big data come each with its own security problems, and each of these trends affect the way the potential that companies approach security. The increased use of big data and cloud services means that companies need to better protect their most valuable assets and ensure that compliance protocols and apply appropriate authorization.

This expansion of the biggest security challenges also met with labor problems. In the executive suite functions such as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) or chief security officer (CSO) they are increasing, but security itself is becoming more horizontal time in all aspects of the digital business. At the same time, the total number of jobs compared to a career in security is booming as well. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data cited in the report by CompTIA, the number of messages increased by 175% from 2012 to 2015. In 2012, there were 39,920 job security compared to 109,819 in 2015, increased to 58,456 in 2014. despite this massive enrollment growth, more than half of all companies surveyed said they believed that there was a lack of capacity.

So if security is a growing problem, why are not business professionals take more seriously? According to CompTIA research, safety regarding the priority not always result in improved safety practices.

"Companies can not fully understand the nature of modern threats, the need to support the process with technology and education, or the need to proactively monitor events and building strong defenses," the report said.

In addition to this conviction that safety is already pretty good, matters such as the prioritization of other security technologies (43%) and lack of security measures (39%) are also hampering the improvement of safety.

In terms of what really help change the focus of a security organization, respondents ranked the following as the most important drivers:

1.   Change in IT operations - 51%
2.   Reports of security vulnerabilities - 46%
3.   Of internal security violation or incident - 40%
4.   The knowledge gained from the training - 39%
5.   Changing direction - 38%
6.   Focus on a new vertical market - 37%
7.   Changes in operations or customer - 37%
8.   The vulnerability of the audit - 34%

As for the discrepancy between the new security threats and needs of security companies, professionals should consider their own organizations to determine how they can reduce the gap between the reality of the security landscape and how to consider their own employees.

Staff Training as Important as Tech in Cybercrime Fight

The channel has to focus on getting qualified customer personnel cyber security and sale of appropriate technology, according to CompTIA, claiming the regulation of data protection in the EU will force come the problem.

In research published today, the trade group CompTIA channel claims that 70 percent of UK businesses have suffered a security breach in the last year, with a little face of an attack almost once a month. About 60 percent of these companies said that human error was to blame for the rape, CompTIA claims that underscores the urgent need for trained personnel to avoid these problems.

The research attributed the staff negligence, failure to update themselves on new threats, and general lack of experience in the field of security as some of the biggest problems holding back workers.

With this in mind, CompTIA Cyber Secure launches education program, which is designed to provide a "basic understanding" cyber security staff in all areas of organizations.

CompTIA vice president Skills and education EMEA Graham Hunter said this is an opportunity for the channel.

"We freely available to our distribution partners and users have 50 licenses," he said. "We have made a commitment and now is to get on the market. It is to raise the bar of awareness of information security in an organization.

"You could say that these [channel] same organizations must go through a level of sensitivity training, as can often be the guardians of important data by the nature of the services they provide. If your staff are protected not in the same way, this could be an easy way. "

Hunter said he hopes programs like CyberSecure has hit the mainstream in corporate human resource services in other corporate training programs same way.

Richard Beck, head of the firm cybersecurity training IT quality control, agreed and said that obtaining personal education about safety is important.

"The best technology in the world will not protect against the actions of an employee who intentionally or by an innocent mistake, opening the door to an attack," he said. "With regard to cybersecurity, companies often take the first technology, training and lags behind in second place. But both must be deployed to the same extent."

SYO-401 Exam Question No 54

Question No 54:

A datacenter requires that staff be able to identify whether or not items have been removed from the facility. Which of the following controls will allow the organization to provide automated notification of item removal?

A. CCTV
B. Environmental monitoring
C. RFID
D. EMI shielding

Answer: C

U.S. IT Sector Adds 3,600 Jobs in April, CompTIA Analysis Finds

Employment in the sector of Information Technology US (TI) increased by 3,600 jobs in April, according to an analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics by CompTIA, the non-profit organization for industry technology.

In the first four months of 2016, the IT sector added 24,400 jobs and employs 4.37 million people.

"The category of IT services, boosting job growth, adding 7,300 new jobs in April," said Tim Herbert, vice president of research and market intelligence, CompTIA. "At the other end of the spectrum, telecommunications continues to lose jobs, down 3,200 jobs last month."

Other specific job categories, computer and electronic products manufacturing increased by 500 jobs in April. Data processing, hosting and related services (down 600 jobs) and other information services, including search portals (down 400 jobs) recorded falls in employment.

The IT workforce has two components: employment in the IT sector and occupations in all other industries. The IT sector is the largest employer in the occupation of IT workers. the use of IT occupation is estimated at 4.548 million in April, up 2.9 percent from the previous month.

For the year to date, professions added a net 64,000 new jobs.

The number of IT jobs occupation in April totaled 138,700, down 17,200 from March. The most important category of jobs last month was software and application developers, 69,000 screens, indicating a strong demand for software talents. Other rating categories include computer systems engineers and developers (18,600), web developers (18,200), computer systems analysts (16,600) and technology projects (16,300).

Each work will not lead to a new location, and companies often have multiple jobs for a single post. But the number of jobs is another indicator that companies focus their technological efforts.

CompTIA's report on the use of US technology is based on an analysis of the work report of the current status of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Employment in general, non-farm payrolls rose by 160,000 in April and the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 5.0 percent.

CompTIA IT Job Tracker is the latest research report published by the Association in the use of technology, skills and trends of the labor force

SYO-401 Exam Question No 53

Question No 53:

Which of the following has a storage root key?

A. HSM
B. EFS
C. TPM
D. TKIP

Answer: C
 

SYO-401 Exam Question No 52

Question No 52:

The Quality Assurance team is testing a new third party developed application. The Quality team does not have any experience with the application. Which of the following is the team performing?

A. Grey box testing
B. Black box testing
C. Penetration testing
D. White box testing

Answer: B
 

CompTIA: IT industry business confidence dips in Q2

The index of business confidence CompTIA has decreased slightly in Q2, but most of the companies surveyed say they are on track to meet its 2016 revenue targets.

Confidence in the computer industry had a slight decline in the second quarter of executives and professionals CompTIA survey.

IT industry confidence CompTIA Business Index, released this week, fell 0.9 points to 63.1 on a scale of 100 points. The index recorded gains over the previous two quarters. The second quarter 2016 reading was based on an online survey of 277 IT companies and is administered in early April. The survey asked a number of IT companies, including hardware and software vendors and channel companies.

The results of the survey suggest that the volatility of the stock market earlier this year and other factors such as concerns about consumer spending might be in the spirit of the computer industry corporate staff. Tim Herbert, senior research and market intelligence in CompTIA vice president, said the organization will wait to see what the next few quarters before using the determination that the data Q2 is something a pothole.

Recent research suggests some flexibility in IT spending. Techaisle research firm earlier this week predicted a decrease of 2% in 2016 IT spending among companies with 50 or fewer employees. Also this week, IDC reported a growth of "minimal" first quarter in smartphone shipments worldwide, citing "high saturation of smartphones in developed countries."

That said, Herbert said the results of the survey reflect optimism about business conditions in the computer industry. CompTIA research found that 75% of companies indicate that they are "on target or tracking ahead" of its 2016 earnings targets.

Herbert said that IT services in particular continue to see strong demand. He told the story, however, may be different for existing distributors or dealers added value in terms of hardware sales. Herbert also noted healthy demand for services among small and medium enterprises (SME) customers modernize and update inherited, business processes such as paper-based contracts and billing.