Ernest & Young: Global Information Security Survey

The 2006 Global Information Security Survey by Ernest & Young is unique in providing a genuine, standards-driven benchmarking approach with the ISO 17799 based-benchmark. Organizations wanting to participate in the ISO 17799-based benchmark can do so at no cost and obtain their own individual report.

Paul van Kessel, Global Leader of Ernst & Young’s Technology and Security Risk Services, comments, “We have identified five major information security priorities in which companies are showing significant progress, but also where continuous improvements are necessary to keep pace with the growing requirements of effective risk management.

“Among the most notable priorities is privacy and personal data protection, which is the one information security issue most-consumer driven. It has become a high-stakes business issue, catapulted up the board agenda by consumer concerns caused by well publicized lapses of security and the growing response of government and legislative activism. Understandably it is the area where companies are being most active, with privacy and data protection practices becoming increasingly more formalized.”