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State of Cybersecurity Resilience 2021
How aligning security and the business creates cyber resilience
Read reportIn the annual survey among 4,744 global respondents around the current state of cybersecurity resilience, we found 85% of CISOs agree or strongly agree that the cybersecurity strategy is developed with business objectives, such as growth or market share, in mind. Yet, 81%, also said that “staying ahead of attackers is a constant battle and the cost is unsustainable” compared with 69% in 2020.
Cyber attacks are up: There were on average 270 attacks per company over the year, a 31% increase over 2020. Third-party risk continues to dominate: successful breaches to the organization through the supply chain have increased from 44% to 61%.
Security investment continues to rise: More than 80% of our survey respondents say their budgets have increased in the last year. IT security budgets are now up to 15% of all IT spending,
5 percentage points higher than reported in 2020.
Cloud still has a complex relationship with security: Despite most respondents believing in secure cloud, 32% say security is not part of the cloud discussion from the outset and they’re trying to catch up. Reasons preventing take-up of the cloud revolve around security issues:
about one-third of all respondents say poor governance and compliance is a problem, that cloud security is too complex and that they do not have the internal skills to structure a proper cloud security framework.
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