Netwrix, a cybersecurity vendor that makes data security easy, has announced the release of the 2020 Netwrix IT Trends report: Reshaped Reality, which reveals the change in IT priorities for organisations for the rest of the year due to the coronavirus outbreak based on the global survey of 937 IT pros. The top three IT priorities for the 120 IT respondents from the UK were network security (73%), data security (71%) and cybersecurity awareness among employees (69%).
The online survey, conducted in June 2020, asked respondents to name up to five IT projects for the rest of the year; they could pick from a predefined list or specify their own. The list offered similar options to the 2020 IT Trends Report that was released at the end of 2019 except for two options such as 'network security' and 'supporting cloud infrastructure', which were added to better reflect the current needs. While data security remained the top priority for the UK organisations, the importance of raising cybersecurity awareness among employees increased nearly twice from 39 per cent before the Coronavirus crisis to 69 per cent after it.
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Ilia Sotnikov, Vice President of Product Management at Netwrix said, "increasing cybersecurity awareness is a necessary measure for UK organisations since remote work has required them to address the human factor as one of the major cyber risks to sensitive data. Yet, simply educating users is not enough - it is important that organisations have in place tools providing them with visibility into where this data resides and who has access to it. Coupled with more educated users, such an approach is one of the best ways to protect what's important to enterprises today."