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The business case for layered security

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Published February 2017

Four per cent of revenue is a lot to sacrifice, particularly in the current economic climate. Yet this is the fine proposed in the EU General Data Protection Regulation for companies failing to provide adequate IT security to protect personal data.

The legislation doesn’t specify what those measures should be. It says they need to be “appropriate to the risks”. The problem is the nature of that risk is changing. In a survey of 700 IT and IT security professionals by the Ponemon Institute, 69 per cent said they saw the severity of malware incidents increase in the last year.