Faced with a growing army of cyber criminals constantly after their data, businesses are investing heavily in new technology and professionals to close the cybersecurity gap. While this sounds promising, most organizations are making very slow progress towards cyber resilience.
In research for Illusive Networks, Ponemon Institute surveyed 627 IT and IT security practitioners in the United States to understand how well businesses are addressing cyber risks – specifically, insider threats – and the steps they are taking to make cyber-ends meet.
Several interesting findings transpire from the report, including that incident response is quite the weak link in mitigating cyber risk. And more than one data point suggests that this is an epidemic among US businesses. For example, only about half of respondents say upper management respects IT security leaders. Only 37 percent say the security team has the support it needs from business teams to design and execute business-oriented threat detection and incident response capabilities.
Most organizations rely on outside expertise to compensate for their weaknesses in incident response. 52% use service providers for analysis and incident…
