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IBM Security - Data Security Survey

The IBM Security team is looking for your insights on how your organization prepares for data security in context of your IT security practices. Please answer the questions below to the best of your ability.

Your answers will not shared outside of IBM Security.

This survey will take approximately 8 minutes.

1. What is your job title? *This question is required.

2. What is your company revenue? *This question is required.

3. In what locations does your company operate? Select all that apply. *This question is required.

4. What is the primary industry for your company? *This question is required.

5. For your organization, what is your current IT security budget? *This question is required.

6. What is your organization's current containerization strategy? Select all that apply. *This question is required.

None at this time
Docker
Kubernetes
OpenShift
I don't know
Other - Write In Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

7. Which of these data security or compliance tools does your organization use? Select all that apply. *This question is required.

Data loss prevention
Data activity monitoring
File activity monitoring
Enterprise digital rights management
Encryption/tokenization
Privacy management platform
Discovery/classification tools
Cloud access security broker

8. For these data security use cases, how satisfied are you using your existing data security tools? *This question is required.

Not satisfied

Highly satisfied

Insider threats

N/A

Threat hunting

N/A

Regulatory compliance

N/A

Discovery & Classification

N/A

User behavior analysis of structured data

N/A

User behavior analysis of unstructured data

N/A

Data protection (Encryption)

N/A

Collaboration with IT Security / Security Operations Center

N/A

9. For these data security use cases, does your organization plan on investing more or less? *This question is required.

Decrease investment

Maintain current investment

Increase investment

Insider threat

N/A

Threat hunting

N/A

Regulatory compliance

N/A

Discovery & Classification

N/A

User behavior analysis of structured data

N/A

User behavior analytics of unstructured data

N/A

Data protection (Encryption)

N/A

Collaboration with IT Security / Security Operations Center

N/A

10. How do you prefer to purchase IT security tools? *This question is required.

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

11. Please rank order the following qualities in order of priority for your IT security needs.
1 = top priority, 8 = lowest priority *This question is required. Note: for the following table each column is restricted to a single answer across all rows.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Affordability	Rank Affordability as 1 out of 8	Rank Affordability as 2 out of 8	Rank Affordability as 3 out of 8	Rank Affordability as 4 out of 8	Rank Affordability as 5 out of 8	Rank Affordability as 6 out of 8	Rank Affordability as 7 out of 8	Rank Affordability as 8 out of 8
Feature/function rich	Rank Feature/function rich as 1 out of 8	Rank Feature/function rich as 2 out of 8	Rank Feature/function rich as 3 out of 8	Rank Feature/function rich as 4 out of 8	Rank Feature/function rich as 5 out of 8	Rank Feature/function rich as 6 out of 8	Rank Feature/function rich as 7 out of 8	Rank Feature/function rich as 8 out of 8
Quick installation	Rank Quick installation as 1 out of 8	Rank Quick installation as 2 out of 8	Rank Quick installation as 3 out of 8	Rank Quick installation as 4 out of 8	Rank Quick installation as 5 out of 8	Rank Quick installation as 6 out of 8	Rank Quick installation as 7 out of 8	Rank Quick installation as 8 out of 8
Ease of use	Rank Ease of use as 1 out of 8	Rank Ease of use as 2 out of 8	Rank Ease of use as 3 out of 8	Rank Ease of use as 4 out of 8	Rank Ease of use as 5 out of 8	Rank Ease of use as 6 out of 8	Rank Ease of use as 7 out of 8	Rank Ease of use as 8 out of 8
Industry specific use cases	Rank Industry specific use cases as 1 out of 8	Rank Industry specific use cases as 2 out of 8	Rank Industry specific use cases as 3 out of 8	Rank Industry specific use cases as 4 out of 8	Rank Industry specific use cases as 5 out of 8	Rank Industry specific use cases as 6 out of 8	Rank Industry specific use cases as 7 out of 8	Rank Industry specific use cases as 8 out of 8
Speed of POC/sales cycle	Rank Speed of POC/sales cycle as 1 out of 8	Rank Speed of POC/sales cycle as 2 out of 8	Rank Speed of POC/sales cycle as 3 out of 8	Rank Speed of POC/sales cycle as 4 out of 8	Rank Speed of POC/sales cycle as 5 out of 8	Rank Speed of POC/sales cycle as 6 out of 8	Rank Speed of POC/sales cycle as 7 out of 8	Rank Speed of POC/sales cycle as 8 out of 8
Single use case products	Rank Single use case products as 1 out of 8	Rank Single use case products as 2 out of 8	Rank Single use case products as 3 out of 8	Rank Single use case products as 4 out of 8	Rank Single use case products as 5 out of 8	Rank Single use case products as 6 out of 8	Rank Single use case products as 7 out of 8	Rank Single use case products as 8 out of 8
SaaS	Rank SaaS as 1 out of 8	Rank SaaS as 2 out of 8	Rank SaaS as 3 out of 8	Rank SaaS as 4 out of 8	Rank SaaS as 5 out of 8	Rank SaaS as 6 out of 8	Rank SaaS as 7 out of 8	Rank SaaS as 8 out of 8

12. How does your organization deploy IT security software? *This question is required.