Compliance [not equal to] security.

• Position: INFO SECURITY - Survey on data security - Brief article

The majority--61%, to be precise--of IT professionals surveyed in April at the 2015 RSA Conference said their organizations had implemented an IT security product simply to satisfy a compliance requirement, which actually put the organization's data at greater risk.

This is one of several factors that prompted 71% of the respondents to fear for their organization's data security. The other major contributors were:

* IT security products not being used to their full potential (cited by 70% of respondents)

* The difficulty of finding skilled IT security personnel (reported by 85%)

* Cyber attacks...