A locally-based security specialist said that Jersey businesses needed to take notice of the results of a major global survey on technological security.
The 2012 Global State of Information Security Survey showed a general reduction in security confidence since 2006 and that third-party security breaches were an increasing trend.
The survey of 9.600 security executives from 138 countries, conducted by big four accountancy firm PwC and two trade magazines, also identified that the use of mobile devices and social media was a growing threat for most organisations.
The good news was that the use of cloud computing was improving information security, but even on that front respondents said that effective reviews of providers was necessary.
Local security specialist Matthew Parker, a manager at PwC Channel Islands, said companies needed to ensure that they were absolutely comfortable with the level of control in place by whoever hosts their data.
