Measuring Cybersecurity Maturity: How Do Organizations Rank?

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Dimension Data‘s new Executive Guide to NTT Security’s 2019 Global Threat Intelligence Report measures an organization’s cybersecurity maturity by assessing its processes, metrics and strategies. Overall, it’s not a pretty picture.

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Although businesses are making strategic investments to boost their security profile, “current ambitions outpace cyber preparedness,” Dimension wrote. In other words, organizations have a great deal of work to do to shore up their defenses. Dimension’s analysis of global attack and incident response data gleaned from more than 150 million cyber attacks and some 6.1 trillion logs worldwide reveal a global average cybersecurity maturity rating of only 1.45 out of a top score of five. Companies in the Americas lagged behind all other regions with an average maturity score of 1.21. That the number of security vulnerabilities has spiked by 12.5 percent from 2017 makes the maturity figures are all the more worrisome, Dimension said.

About 22 percent of all global…

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