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The Thales Data Threat report, now in it's third year of publication has been published in conjunction with 451 Research. You can download the report from here, some personal details are required. The report is compiled form a survey of 1100 IT security Executives from around the world.

The key findings in this years report are:

• 67.8% of respondents stated that their organisation had suffered a data breach at some point, an increase of 7%. 26% reported a breach in the previous year, up from 21.6% in the last report.
• 88% of respondents feel some degree of vulnerability to data threats. 
• Compliance is the primary reason (44%) for spending on information security. 
• Data sovereignty has become a hot topic in light of new regulations, with encryption being identified as the clear favourite choice to satisfy local data privacy laws. 
• Complexity remains the top barrier to adoption of security solutions.
• Spending and forecast spending is up, which is great news, however, old habits die hard and once again network and endpoint security top the spending list, despite being ranked the least effective (in endpoints case anyway)

It would be marvelous to see training appear somewhere in the top spending list one year, no amount of security systems and technologies can secure your information without training, not just the IT staff but the whole organisation. The best way to defend your organisation or your business is to inform your staff, empower them  to be effective participants in your security policies.