Trend Micro Incorporated published research revealing that global organisations lack sufficient resources and leadership buy-in to measure and mitigate risk across their digital attack surface.
Sharda Tickoo, Country Manager for India & SAARC at Trend Micro: “A lack of clear leadership on cybersecurity can have a paralysing effect on an organisation—leading to reactive, piecemeal and erratic decision making. Companies need CISOs to clearly communicate in terms of business risk to engage their boards. Ideally, they should have a single source of truth across the attack surface from which to share updates with the board, continually monitor risk, and automatically remediate issues for enhanced cyber-resilience.”
Trend polled 2,600 global IT leaders responsible for cybersecurity in small, medium and large organisations to better understand their attitudes toward attack surface risk management (ASRM).
The top three gaps in cyber-resilience revealed by respondents were:
· Sufficient staffing for 24x7x365 cybersecurity coverage – which just 36% have
· Attack surface management techniques to measure the risk of the attack surface (used by 35%)
· Using proven regulatory and other frameworks like the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (only 34%)
The failure of a majority of global companies to achieve these cybersecurity basics could be traced back to a lack of leadership and accountability at the top of the organisation. Half (48%) of respondents claimed that their leadership doesn’t consider cybersecurity to be their responsibility. Just 17% disagreed strongly with that statement.
When asked who does or should hold responsibility for mitigating business risk, respondents returned a variety of answers, indicating a lack of clarity on reporting lines. Nearly a third (31%) said the buck stops with organisational IT teams.
This lack of clear direction on cybersecurity strategy may be why over half (54%) of global respondents complained that their organisation’s attitude to cyber risk is inconsistent and varies from month to month.
The leadership required to remediate these issues is not present in many organisations. Nearly all (96%) of those surveyed have concerns about their attack surface. Over one third (36%) are worried about having a way of discovering, assessing and mitigating high-risk areas, and a fifth (19%) aren’t able to work from a single source of truth.
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