Organizations' negligent cyber risk areas 2020

Of respondents, 87 percent feel as if their organization in 2020 is falling short addressing various cyber risks. The lack of investing resources in budget, people, and technologies to address cyber risks was one of the more popular concerns from respondents, with 31 percent answering as such.

In which areas, if any, do you feel your organization is falling short in addressing cyber risk?

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Organization is falling short addressing cyber risks	87%
We are not investing enough resource (budget, people, technologies, etc.) to address our risks	31%
Security is not always addressed during application development	30%
We are not proactive enough when it comes to our security strategy	28%
Inadequate security training for users (full & part-time employees, contractors, or outsourced users)	27%
Insufficient communications between security team and lines of business	26%
We struggle to find, acquire, and/or retain the technical or professional expertise we need	20%
Addressing risks that have arisen from the new work environment brought on by the pandemic	20%
Lack of security team involvement prior to implementing new technologies	19%
Poor visibility into IT environment	18%
The complexity of our security environment makes it diffcult to retrieve timely, actionable intelligence from our systems	18%
Lack of security team involvement in vendor and 3rd party management	16%
Non-routine updates of incident respone plan	12%
Lack of security during due diligence phase of M&A	11%

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Release date

November 2020

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2020

Number of respondents

522 respondents

Special properties

survey respondents are involved in IT and/or corporate/physical security decisions

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

The source does not provide information regarding multiple answering options.

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