Symantec’s 2007 IT Risk Management Report: “confidence in a connected world”

Symantec’s corporate tagline: “Confidence in a connected world.”  

Symantec’s IT Risk Management Report examines IT risk based on interviews with more than 500 IT executives and professionals worldwide.  The article shows how Symantec’s approach to IT Risk Management can help organizations reduce risk exposure, maximize IT performance, and control costs.  And that organizations today must address four main types of IT risk: security; availability; performance; and compliance. 

Among the report’s findings: *62% of organizations expect a regulatory breach and major information loss in the next five years. *66% of organizations perceive high/critical operational risk in finance and administration. *61% of organizations are not highly effective at governance, compliance, and continuous improvement. *24% of IT staff time is devoted to addressing business application performance delays.