Despite all the data losses that are filling the headlines and leaving hundreds of thousands of people exposed to identity theft, 40% of companies don't monitor their databases for suspicious activity, according to a study released this week.And it's not that IT managers don't realize how sensitive the information in these databases really is. Seventy-eight percent of those polled said their databases are either critical or important to their business, with customer data most commonly contained within them.
In an increasingly precarious balancing act, IT professionals said their companies are caught between trying to protect data from misuse by external and internal threats, while at the same time giving greater access to the same data in order to drive business initiatives.
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