Despite the increasing number of data breaches and more than 3.9 billion data records worldwide being lost or stolen since 2013, organizations continue to believe perimeter security technologies are effective against data breaches, according to one of the many findings of the third-annual Data Security Confidence Index released by Gemalto.
Of the 1,100 IT decision makers surveyed worldwide, 61% said their perimeter security systems (firewall, IDPS, AV, content filtering, anomaly detection, etc.) were very effective at keeping unauthorized users out of their network. However, 69% said they are not confident their organization's data would be secure if their perimeter security was breached. This is up from 66% in 2015 and 59% in 2014. Furthermore, 66% believe unauthorized users can access their network and nearly two in five (16%) said unauthorized users could access their entire network.