Most companies experienced a cyber attack last year with more than two thirds hitting vital operational technology, according to a new Forrester report
The research, commissioned by Tenable, found that 63 percent of the 103 UK respondents had witnessed a dramatic rise in business-impacting cyber-attacks in the last two years.
In many cases, these attacks had severely damaging effects, from loss of employee data (44 percent) and financial loss or theft (36 percent), to customer attrition (34 percent ).
Two thirds of the surveyed UK security leaders claimed that these attacks also involved operational technology (OT).
Only 40 percent of security leaders admitted answering the question “How secure, or at risk, are we?” with a high level of confidence.
The study found that security and business leaders who are aligned in measuring and managing cybersecurity as a strategic business risk are capable of delivering “demonstrable results” within their organisations.
Compared to their “siloed” counterparts, business-aligned security leaders were found to be eight times more likely to display a high level of confidence in their ability to report on their organisations’ level of security or risk, and three times more likely to have a “holistic” understanding of their organisation’s entire attack “surface”. [Jargon warning, Ed.]
