Leading cyber risk counter-strategies worldwide 2019

According to a March 2019 survey of senior executives, 66 percent of respondents stated that their organization had implemented awareness trainings for employees in order to mitigate cyber risks within the past 12 to 24 months. Technical actions were the most popular, as 83 percent of respondents also stated their their company had improved the security of their computers, devices and systems during the same period.

Actions taken by organizations to counteract cyber risk events in the past 12 to 24 months according to senior executives worldwide as of March 2019

Characteristic	Yes, we have	No, but we plan to	No, we have not	I do not know
Technical	-	-	-	-
Improve security of our computers, devices, system	83%	8%	3%	6%
Improve data protection capabilities	78%	11%	5%	6%
Conduct penetration testing (e.g. simulated attack)	53%	13%	21%	13%
Policy and Procedure	-	-	-	-
Implement awareness training for employees	66%	18%	11%	5%
Strengthen cybersecurity policies and procedures	62%	19%	10%	9%
Review/update our cyber incident response plan	47%	23%	16%	14%
Risk Assessment and Preparation	-	-	-	-
Assess cyber risk/controls against cybersec. standards	63%	14%	14%	9%
Identify external services, resources, experts to support	45%	20%	20%	15%
Risk assessment of our vendors/supply chain	33%	18%	31%	18%
Tabletop exercises and/or training for management	29%	27%	30%	14%
Model potential cyber loss scenarios	28%	21%	35%	16%
Benchmark cyber risks against peers/other organizations	28%	15%	40%	17%

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Release date

September 2019

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

February and March 2019

Number of respondents

1,118 respondents

Special properties

senior executives

Supplementary notes

Original question: "Please indicate whether your organization has taken the specific actions listed below within the past 12 to 24 months."
Values may not add up to 100 percent due to rounding.

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