International Study: Securing personal identity information among companies’ top struggles

Companies rank top seven tech-related business issues for next 12-18 months

Securing personally identifiable information (PII) is a top concern facing business and technology executives this year, according to a survey of more than 3,100 professionals in more than 95 countries. Conducted by ISACA, a nonprofit association that serves more than 86,000 IT governance professionals worldwide, the study identified the top seven business issues impacted by technology. The findings are available in Top Business/Technology Issues Survey Results, offered as a free download at www.isaca.org/downloads.

Respondents ranked the following business issues as the top seven from 21 options:
1. Regulatory compliance, specifically protecting PII and implementing transaction monitoring
2. Enterprise-based management and IT governance
3. Information security management
4. Disaster recovery/business continuity
5. IT value management
6. Challenges of managing IT risks
7. Compliance with financial reporting

Enterprises continue to make increasingly large-scale investments in IT and IT-enabled change, making it even more challenging to ensure compliance with the growing number of international regulations across all industries. According to the survey, this effort is made less difficult when technology is viewed as an integral part of the business.

ISACA will address the business challenges facing technology professionals by offering guidance materials customized for the top business issues. In addition, FAQs for each issue will be available later this year.

Quelle: ISACA