A new report from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) finds that large organizations are still failing to secure their critical database assets despite years of effort.

“According to the paper, authored in cooperation with database security vendor Applications Security Inc., over 60 percent of the 175 North American enterprises (1,000 or more employees) surveyed by ESG during Oct. 2009 readily admitted that their existing database controls do not sufficiently protect their sensitive electronic information,” writes eWeek’s Matthew Hines.

“Alarmingly, some 70 percent of the organizations participating in the report indicated that they don’t believe that they even have well-defined database controls in place,” Hines writes.

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