A worldwide survey of over 400 organisations with over 500 employees shows that, although organisations believe that they will suffer data leakage in some form at some stage, it will be accidental rather than malicious. The survey which was commissioned by Dimension Data and carried out by research house IDC during 2009 focused on IT security and interviewed IT security decision makers and influencers in 18 countries in Western Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia and Pacific. “The fact that 57% of the organisations that IDC polled are planning investment in data loss (or leakage) prevention (DLP) indicates broad acceptance of the need to complement the traditional network-centric security approach with data-centric security,” says Neil Campbell, Dimension Data’s global general manager security solutions. “Organisations (45%) also believe that data leakage is more likely to occur through human error on the part of their own employees, rather than through intentional theft from outside (15%).