SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - December 17, 2008) - Rohati Systems, Inc., the
leading supplier of agent-less access management solutions,
today released survey results revealing that widespread use
of collaboration applications coupled with the lack of
cost-effective and easy-to-deploy access management
solutions is eroding enterprise security and undermining
regulatory compliance efforts. The survey polled 117 CIOs,
CISOs and IT executive decision makers from global small and
medium businesses to Fortune 100 enterprises in the
financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing,
technology, pharmaceutical, federal government, state/local
government, and services industries.
Global enterprises are rapidly deploying collaboration
applications to increase business responsiveness and improve
global communications among employees, partners,
contractors, customers, and in some cases even competitors.
Over 50 percent of the respondents indicated that they
primarily used a combination of Web-based Intranet portals,
Common Internet File Systems (CIFS) and Microsoft SharePoint
to enable collaboration.
Need to Collaborate, Cost and Complexity of Existing
Solutions Creates Security Gap
Despite the widespread use of collaboration applications, 71
percent of the survey respondents stated that their
organizations aren't taking adequate steps to mitigate risks
associated with unauthorized access to data within the
collaboration environment. Seventy percent of the
respondents said that in order to effectively secure the
collaborative environment, solutions that provide granular
enforcement of authorization policies at the document level
must be implemented, however, 61 percent responded that
existing solutions are too expensive to deploy and 54
percent said solutions that require applications to be
decoded are too complex to implement. Furthermore, 43
percent are concerned that access management solutions will
impact mission critical systems.
"The naked truth this survey validates is that enterprises
are deploying collaborative applications with security
policies that are inadequate for enforcing the required
controls to meet regulatory compliance mandates. Most of
those polled indicated that the high cost and complexity
associated with existing access management solutions are to
blame for this lapse in security," said Rohati CEO Shane
Buckley. "Organizations that rely on highly collaborative
environments to conduct business are in desperate need of
cost-effective access management solutions that can
ubiquitously enforce granular access policies."
Why Does the Collaborative Environment Keep IT Security Up
at Night?
-- Forty percent of respondents fear that inadequate
security measures will lead to unauthorized users gaining
access to restricted data and applications
-- Thirty-six percent of respondents fear that the
widespread use of unchecked, collaborative applications
could lead to a compliance violation
-- Twenty-nine percent of respondents fear that a lack of
security in the collaboration environment could lead to a
data breach
Other Survey Findings
-- Respondents are concerned about employees, domestic
contractors, foreign contractors, partners, enterprise and
consumer customers gaining unauthorized access to data and
applications in the collaborative environment; with
employees at the top of the list (50 percent)
-- Seventy-nine percent of respondents stated that their
organizations rely primarily on basic authentication for
security, including single sign-on and password
-- While most respondents said a variety of protective
measures are needed to protect data and information in the
collaborative environment, 70 percent agreed that granular
authorization policies that control access at the document
level were needed
-- Sixty-six percent of respondents believe that
authorization enforcement policies controlling the ability
to print, store and delete files are needed in their
collaborative environment
About Rohati
Rohati Systems, Inc. is the leader in agent-less access
management solutions. Rohati solutions quickly and
cost-effectively enable companies to define, enforce and log
access and authorization policies across applications and
file shares from a single management console. Unlike
traditional approaches to identity and access management,
which are time- and cost-prohibitive to deploy broadly, the
Rohati solution resides in the data center, is network-based
to ensure high performance, and does not require agents or
changes to applications. Delivering numerous industry
firsts, Rohati enables companies to safeguard all their data
assets to protect their business and adhere to compliance
regulations. Rohati is backed by Matrix Partners and
Foundation Capital, and is headquartered in Sunnyvale,
California. To learn more, visit
www.rohati.com.