Social Media Should Have Strict Privacy
Uploaded on 2019-09-18 in TECHNOLOGY-Key Areas-Social Media, FREE TO VIEW
Nearly 4,000 IT security professionals attending the Black Hat USA 2019 have been surveyed and eighty percent of these high;y informed IT security professionals agree that more security and privacy laws are needed, especially for social media organisations that often store massive amounts of our personal data. However, 82% of IT pros don’t believe their elected officials properly understand the cyber risks well enough to develop and enact effective security regulation, a Venafi survey reveals.
Other findings from the survey include:
• Ninety-three percent do not trust social media organisations to protect their personally identifiable information.
• Eighty-two percent do not trust the government to protect their personally identifiable information.
• Eighty percent of respondents say government officials do not understand the cyber risks targeting digital infrastructure.
“There’s a global wave of legislators, regulators and law enforcement officials proposing controversial surveillance laws such as government mandated encryption backdoors,” said Kevin Bocek, vice president of security strategy and threat intelligence at encryption and security experst Venafi.
“However, security professionals lack confidence in politicians’ abilities to improve cybersecurity given the unabated flood of government breaches in the US and around the world.
“The results of our survey send a clear message that governments must improve their cyber-security fluency in order to make a meaningful impact and help our frontline defenders protect the global economy, freedoms and privacy.”
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