Over 75 percent of I.T. professionals and Managers say it matters, but two-fifths take little action. Even though many have experienced breaches into their databases, it doesn’t seem as though security is a priority for most.

While 78 percent of large companies say their databases are “critical” or “important” to their business, 40 percent of them don’t monitor databases for security purposes.

Those are the primary results of a Ponemon Institute research study released Thursday that surveyed 649 IT executives.

Ponemon’s report, titled “Database Security 2007: Threats and Priorities within IT Database Infrastructure” also indicates that 57 percent of the IT executives surveyed admitted their organizations haven’t taken “adequate measures” to protect against malicious insiders, and 55 percent acknowledged there had no “adequate measures” in place to prevent data loss.

Eighty percent of the surveyed IT executives said their organizations have more than 100 databases, primarily a multiplatform environment including Microsoft SQL, Oracle and IBM DB2.

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