Majority of businesses remain in the dark over data breaches

New research by Varonis has revealed that only 25% of those companies questioned were able to answer yes to the question: "Are you able to detect when files containing sensitive data are uploaded to a third party cloud service?" Which left a staggering three-quarters of businesses in the dark about the potential for data leakage. It's a growing problem, what with the increasingly widespread availability of public cloud storage such as Dropbox and Google Drive to employees during the last couple of years. The research paper 'Security Incidents and Real-time Alert' also suggests that companies are in the dark about other important security issues. Not least the ability to spot when there has been a data breach.