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10 Security Risks That Keep Customers Up at Night

By Ericka Chickowski on 2010-05-20



Plenty of IT administrators toss and turn at night over the security risks they know threaten their servers, networks and client computers, according to a recent survey of 353 network administrators conducted by Amplitude Research on behalf of VanDyk Software. Channel partners who know the understand the following ten pain points and how to alleviate them with the right combinations of IT solutions and services are more likely to find themselves winning the security deals.

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Securing remote access: 52 percent of administrators vote this in their top three security worries

Keeping virus definitions up to date: 44 percent of administrators vote this in their top three security worries

Patching systems: 36 percent of administrators vote this in their top three security worries

Monitoring intrusions: 33 percent of administrators vote this in their top three security worries.

Secure file transfer: 30 percent of administrators vote this in their top three security worries

Network use monitoring: 28 percent of administrators vote this in their top three security worries

User awareness: 26 percent of administrators vote this in their top three security worries

Password management: 16 percent of administrators vote this in their top three security worries

Managing logs: 11 percent of administrators vote this in their top three security worries

Replacing non-secure protocols: 11 percent of administrators vote this in their top three security worries

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