LONDON, England, Oct. 16 — Willis Towers Watson, a risk management, insurance brokerage and advisory company, issued the following news release:
The majority of executives (87%) around the world cite untrained staff as the greatest cyber risk to their business according to a new report from “The Cybersecurity Imperative” – a global thought leadership program produced by independent researcher, ESI ThoughtLab in conjunction with Willis Towers Watson and other organizations specialized in cybersecurity and risk management. Compounding this finding is the fact that staff training is ranked among the categories to have made the least progress when measured against the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity framework.
For the Cyber Security Imperative, ESI Thought Lab surveyed 1,300 organizations with revenues ranging from under $1 billion to over $50 billion, across multiple industries spanning APAC, Europe, US/Canada and Latin America.
The research also identified the most common types of attacks to include malware/spyware (81%) and phishing (64%), with external unsophisticated hackers (59%) and cyber criminals (57%) identified as the next biggest…
