Marsh research shows incident response planning tops list of most effective security measures.
Companies with comprehensive incident response planning, fully deployed endpoint detection systems, and advanced security monitoring capabilities experience significantly fewer breaches than their peers, according to analysis of thousands of organizations in Marsh’s latest Cyber Risk Intelligence Center report.
The cybersecurity landscape has fundamentally shifted since Marsh’s 2023 Cyber Risk Intelligence Center report. Where organizations once focused on whether they had implemented basic security controls, the differentiator today lies in how well those controls are deployed and maintained, Marsh said.
The 2025 report reveals that adoption rates for critical security measures have surged dramatically. Endpoint detection and response (EDR) implementation jumped to 91% from 82% between 2023 and 2025. Email security sandboxing increased to 83% from 75%. Most notably, the percentage of organizations setting target windows for patching critical vulnerabilities rocketed to 89% from…
