BENGALURU: According to a Kaspersky Lab survey of more than 3,900 IT professionals worldwide, the Non-Profit/Charitable sector reported the lowest rate of virtualization adoption across all sectors of Kaspersky Lab’s survey. Only 42 percent of charities and non-profits thought virtualization was becoming a core part of their IT infrastructure, compared to a global average of 52 percent. Given this low rate of adoption, it was not surprising to find charities and non-profits also reported the lowest security prioritization of their virtual infrastructure. Only 10 percent of charities and non-profits said securing their virtual infrastructure was one of their top three IT security priorities for the coming year. Charities and non-profits only ranked one IT area lower than virtualization – physical security of their business systems, at 8 percent and assigned the highest prioritization to continuity of service (37 percent), identity and access management (31 percent), and security of mobile devices (30 percent).

The Education sector shared a similar attitude to the importance of securing virtual infrastructure, also reporting that only 10 percent of their sector had virtualization as a top three concern.  However, the Education sector reported a higher than average usage of virtualization, with 54 percent reporting virtual environments as a core part of their IT infrastructure, a rate that was 12 percentage points higher than their charity counterparts.  Despite their relatively high rate of virtualization usage, IT managers at education facilities said their top security priorities are preventing data leaks (29 percent), continuity of service (28 percent), and providing information security training to employees (28 percent).  Interestingly, educators placed security training for employees as a higher priority than any other business sector in the survey.

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