The survey found most security spending is driven by compliance initiatives, which focuses on protecting less valuable custodial data in the form of customer personally identifiable information and credit card numbers.
The data makes up a smaller proportion of a company’s assets, about 38%, while 62% of valuable enterprise assets typically make up corporate secrets.
“Catastrophic toxic data spills are dramatic and expensive, and they garner the most headlines…But for most enterprises, secrets are more valuable than custodial data,” according to the Forrester report, “The value of corporate secrets.”
Firms in the manufacturing, information services, professional, scientific and technical services and transportation accrue between 70% and 80% of their information portfolio value from corporate secrets. The survey found the average cost for lost smartphone incidents was about $12,000 per incident, while lost laptops and accidental leakages cost $26,000 per incident.
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