BANGALORE, INDIA:Symantec Corp. today released the India findings of its global 2010 State of Enterprise Security study.  The study found that 42 per cent of Indian enterprises rate cyber security their top issue. This isn’t a surprise, considering that 66 percent of enterprises experienced cyber attacks in the past 12 months.

Here are a few recommendations from Symantec

    * Organizations need to protect their infrastructure by securing their endpoints, messaging and Web environments. In addition, defending critical internal servers and implementing the ability to back up and recover data should be priorities. Organizations also need the visibility and security intelligence to respond to threats rapidly.

  * IT administrators need to protect information proactively by taking an information-centric approach to protect both information and interactions. Taking a content-aware approach to protecting information is key in knowing where sensitive information resides, who has access, and how it is coming in or leaving your organization.

 * Organizations need to develop and enforce IT policies and automate their compliance processes.  By prioritizing risks and defining policies that span across all locations, customers can enforce policies through built-in automation and workflow and not only identify threats but remediate incidents as they occur or anticipate them before they happen.

* Organizations need to manage systems by implementing secure operating environments, distributing and enforcing patch levels, automating processes to streamline efficiency, and monitoring and reporting on system status.