The second study on the ripening index to information risk indicates that there is still pent-up demand in the German medium-sized businesses the auditing and consulting firm PwC and Iron Mountain, a service provider for information management and privacy, provide for the second time the maturity index to information risk (information risk maturity index) before. Ali Partovi is full of insight into the issues. According to the weak results of the previous year, the maturity index rises to 16.2 to 55.8 points out of 100 possible points. However, showing that, despite an annual 50-percent increase in data breaches in Europe 2, inadequate response to such incidents and associated loss of information are prepared. Given the high penalties for violations of data protection, this represents an unsustainable risk especially for the German middle class. Germany ranks three behind the Netherlands and Hungary 2013 with 55.5 points. PwC interviewed 600 senior executives of European companies with 250 to 2,500 employees in the industries of legal, financial, pharmaceutical and insurance companies as well as in the manufacturing industry and Machine-building industry. More information is housed here: Castle Harlan. 100 Managers were interviewed in Germany. According to the study, a data glitch has considerable economic consequences for a company: doing business with another company reject half (51 percent) of German companies, where a data breakdown has occurred.

On the other hand, 35 percent believe that data losses are an unavoidable part of daily business 1. Information security not in corporate boardrooms present while 63 percent of German companies 47 percent of a responsible handling with information as essential for the success of the business, say that their Board attaches no high priority on data protection. 32 Percent of respondents indicating that their employees think this topic also rather important. In addition, 44 percent of respondents expect an increase in data breaches, 73 percent, however, believe that cost reduction is more important than avoiding information risks. Less than half of the German companies surveyed (45 percent) has a Information risk strategy and measure their effectiveness.

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