SailPoint has published the results of its annual Market Pulse Survey

Dec 13, 2013 21:21 GMT  ·  By

A new study from SailPoint shows that organizations don’t have too much faith in their own employees. However, while they’re all concerned, many of them don’t have the technical measures in place to stop them.

The 2013 Market Survey Pulse reveals that 45% of organizations believe their employees would sell company data for the right price.

52% of the 400 IT decision makers from the US and the UK who took part in the survey have admitted that their employees have seen documents that they shouldn’t have had access to.

84% of enterprises use cloud-based services for major business processes. The IT decision makers in 63% of organizations are required to evaluate cloud applications as part of the software procurement process.

While it’s clear that more and more organizations adopt the cloud and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, 41% of them admit that they’re not able to efficiently manage the use of these technologies.

Moreover, 81% are concerned about business users sharing passwords on both personal and corporate apps. 57% have experienced situations in which corporate devices containing sensitive information have been lost.

Over half of respondents say they’ve had terminated employees trying to access company data after leaving the organizations.

Yet, only 41% have a process in place to automatically remove sensitive data from mobile devices. It’s no wonder that more than half of those who took part in the survey believe that it’s just a matter of time until a data breach occurs.

“There’s no denying it, cloud and mobile technologies are becoming mainstream. But, as our survey indicates, enterprises are still ‘catching up’ to the required levels of oversight and control they need,” commented Jackie Gilbert, CMO and founder of SailPoint.

“With our survey finding that as many as 59% of mission-critical applications will be stored in the cloud by 2016, the need for better management of cloud and mobile access is only going to rise,” Gilbert added.

“Organizations need to have automated policy and controls in place to monitor and manage user access across the entire enterprise – including mobile and cloud applications - in order to minimize security and compliance risk.”