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Survey Finds Federal Agencies Remain Challenged Over Data Security Risks

Tuesday, November 18th, 2014

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Network security provider Symantec [SYMC] on Nov. 6 released a study that shows federal agencies believe that they remain heavily challenged in grappling with data security and data management. Only 37 percent of those surveyed for the study give their organizations an “A” for data protection and while 74 percent say they have a formal, enterprise-wide information governance strategy, just 22 percent believe it’s very effective and 39 percent rank the strategy a four out of a possible five, according…

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