Kaspersky Lab Survey: Healthcare And Financial Services Sectors Struggle With Virtualization Security Concerns


BANGALORE: According to a Kaspersky Lab survey of 3,900 IT professionals worldwide, Financial Services and Healthcare are the two business sectors most likely to see security concerns as a barrier to implementing IT virtualization technology.

Sensitive Data Causing Virtualization Reluctance

When asked about attitudes toward emerging technology trends, 50 percent of Financial Services respondents agreed that security concerns were hindering their adoption of virtualization technologies, followed closely by 49 percent of Healthcare industry respondents. These were the two highest response rates to this question, compared to a global average of 40 percent of all remaining non-industrial sectors1 (43 percent with industrial sectors2 included).

Conventional wisdom would suggest that security concerns toward new technologies might resonate strongly in Financial Services and Healthcare, since both sectors manage huge amounts of highly-sensitive user data. Moreover, both these sectors are bound by strict compliance laws governing the protection and access of their corporate data. In fact, the Financial Services and Healthcare sectors also ranked the highest in their response to another issue: being overwhelmed by compliance requirements, with response rates of 40 percent and 38 percent respectively. The remaining non-industrial segments had an average response rate of just 27 percent to “being overwhelmed by compliance requirements” (31 percent with industrial sectors included).This data suggests that concerns over potential compliance issues could be fueling the perceived “security concerns” that the survey found to be associated with new virtualization technology. A full list of industry-specific attitudes towards new technology trends were published in Kaspersky Lab’s 2014 IT Security Risks summary report.
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