4 tech nightmares keeping IT leaders up at night

Being a CIO isn’t an easy job, not when hackers are coming at you from all sides trying to get their hands on that sweet, sweet data. It’s especially never-racking because one breach can turn a company from a respectable business to one that looks like it protects its information with a layer of Swiss cheese.

Here are four things keeping CIOs up at night – and ways to help them fall back asleep again – or at least into a light doze instead of staring at the ceiling waiting for a hacker to break through.

1. Dude, where’s my data?

Andrew Hay, CISO for DataGravity, says one concern might seem a simple one: “the lack of data awareness that organizations have in terms of where information is stored and what type of sensitive information is accessible by people who shouldn’t have it,” he says.

But that’s not just about where data lives. It’s where copies of it are going, and the security of those systems. “Are [employees] uploading it to things like Drop Box or Google Docs because they work from home or the files are psyched with their personal servers instead of VPN?”  For the full article click here

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