Top companies’ IT security ineffective

Ireland’s top businesses do not have the means to assess whether the security solutions they have in place are protecting their organisations.

Research by Computer Associates says 70% of organisations have no central function for managing or reporting on the effectiveness of security tools.

Growing instances of virus attacks, internal breaches of security, vulnerabilities and hacking threats are causing the management and ownership of IT to become a central rather than departmental function.

“The amount of information being produced by firewalls, VPNs, antivirus and other security devices means that the vital security ‘signal’ is often lost in a sea of security noise,” said Matt Brennan, Ireland country manager, Computer Associates.