Brocade is warning companies to reassess their security priorities for data centres and stop ignoring encryption, after a survey found that half of respondents had experienced security breaches during 2008. The Brocade commissioned survey of 4,500 senior European IT decision-makers in the UK, France and Germany was carried out during late 2008, across a number of verticals (public sector, health, finance, retail, manufacturing/logistics, telco, media etc). Four out of five agreed that data security is one of the biggest challenges facing their organisation, after 50 percent of respondents admitted experiencing data loss/theft in 2008. Last week, a report from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) also said that there had been a sharp rise in the number of reported data breaches in 2008.