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The Global Information Security Workforce Study conducted an interesting security survey recently, where they surveyed 7,548 people about a variety of security topics.

Some of the interesting shifts noted this year are: 17% of the respondents came from Africa, Latin America, and Oceania (it must be a quite an eye-opener going online for the first time and seeing all the great and not-so-great things on the wild wild web) . Also, a majority of people see the growing need for security education. Some of the key findings follow below:

* Respondents came from the three major regions of the world: Americas (41%), Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) (25%), and Asia-Pacific (34%). It is also interesting to note that this year, respondents from Africa, Latin America, and Oceania comprised 17% of the total respondents.

* Respondents from the Americas see a growing demand for education in security administration (53%), applications and systems development for security (39%) and telecommunications and network security (34%).

* Respondents from EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Asia) see a growing demand for security administration (40%), business continuity and disaster recovery planning (29%) and privacy (29%).

* Respondents from Asia-Pacific see a growing demand for security administration (54%), applications and systems development for security (36%) and telecommunications and network security (34%).

* Three-quarters of respondents see viruses and worm attacks as a top/high threat. Next in line for concern are hackers and inside employees as potential security threats.

* Three quarters of respondents view the impact of service downtime (73%) and damage to the organization’s reputation (71%) as top/high priorities. In addition, customer issues related to privacy violations (70%) and customer identify theft (67%) are a top/high priority.

The full report can be found The right here.

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