Data Breaches are Unavoidable says New Survey

A new survey of technology professionals reports that 63 percent of respondents don't believe they can prevent such breaches. The survey can be found here. More from PC World:

"This group came out much, much more negative than I ever expected," said Larry Ponemon, the founder and chairman of the Ponemon Institute, an Elk Rapids, Michigan-based firm that looks at information and privacy management practices in business and government. "They said they're bad at detecting [breaches], but even worse at preventing [breaches]."

The 11-page study, "National Survey on the Detection and Prevention of Data Breaches," which was released Monday, is based on responses from 853 IT professionals, including senior executives, information security managers, and others. The study was sponsored by PortAuthority Technologies, a Palo Alto, California-based vendor of information leak prevention software.

The study also found that 41 percent of respondents said their companies are not effective in enforcing data security policies because of a lack of corporate resources.