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Four in 10 chief information security officers (CISOs) admit their companies are unprepared to stop cyber attacks despite a surge in cybersecurity spending – but with just 29 per cent of CEOs saying the same, it seems many chief executives remain dangerously overconfident. The findings, which emerged in a major new ThoughtLab survey of 1,200 large companies […]
A full 40% of chief security officers, and 29% of chief executives and chief information security officers (CISO) do not believe that their organizations are sufficiently prepared to handle the rapidly changing cyber landscape, a new report from think tank ThoughtLab said in a new study. The report, entitled Cybersecurity Solutions for a Riskier World, analyzed the cybersecurity […]
ThoughtLab, the global research firm, has announced the findings of its 2022 cybersecurity benchmarking study, Cybersecurity Solutions for a Riskier World. The study analysed the cybersecurity strategies and results of 1,200 large organisations across 14 different sectors and 16 countries, representing $125.2 billion of annual cybersecurity spending. The research revealed that the pandemic has brought […]
ThoughtLab, the global research firm, has announced the findings of its 2022 cybersecurity benchmarking study, Cybersecurity Solutions for a Riskier World. The study analysed the cybersecurity strategies and results of 1,200 large organisations across 14 different sectors and 16 countries, representing $125.2 billion of annual cybersecurity spending. The research revealed that the pandemic has brought […]
Cyberattacks and data breaches may have increased by 15.1% in 2021, compared with 2020, with attacks expected to even increase in sophistication in the next two years, but corporate cybersecurity executives in 1,200 public and private entities across 16 countries continue to lack preparedness for future threats, TechRepublic reports. Despite the share of security budgets in organizations’ overall […]
Many Chief Executive Officers (CEO) and Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) don’t believe their organizations are prepared for the cybersecurity landscape of today, new research has claimed. Analyzing cybersecurity strategies and results of 1,200 large organizations in 16 countries, ThoughtLab’s latest report found almost a third (29%) of CEOs, and two in every five (40%) […]
ThoughtLab announced the findings of its 2022 cybersecurity benchmarking study which analyzed the cybersecurity strategies and results of 1,200 large organizations across 14 different sectors and 16 countries, representing $125.2 billion of annual cybersecurity spending. The research revealed that the pandemic has brought cybersecurity to a critical inflection point. The number of material breaches respondents suffered rose […]
Security leaders are bracing themselves for an increase in cyberattacks as nation-states and cybercriminals become more prolific. Executives anticipate that these attacks will target weak spots primarily caused by software misconfigurations (49%), human error (40%), poor maintenance (40%) and unknown assets (30%). A cybersecurity benchmarking study from Thoughtlab, “Cybersecurity Solutions for a Riskier World,” analyzed […]
The average time it takes organizations to respond to a breach is 47 days. Some 40% of CSOs globally say their organizations are unprepared for a rapidly changing threat landscape. That’s according to a new ThoughtLab study. The study analyzed the cybersecurity strategies and results of 1,200 large organizations across 14 different sectors and 16 countries. It represents more […]
Security officers surveyed by ThoughtLab expect an increase in attacks over the next two years from cybercriminals and nation-states using social engineering and ransomware. As cyberattacks grow in both number and sophistication, organizations are increasingly under the gun to protect themselves from compromise. Though companies have responded by upping their security budgets and adopting more […]