LONDON and NEW YORK, June 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A majority of executives around the world feel their organizations can do better when it comes to learning from their past cyber mistakes, according to the results of a newly released global survey conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and Willis Towers Watson. The EIU surveyed over 450 companies across the globe about their strategies and the challenges they face in building cyber resilient organizations. While most organizations regard themselves as doing a good job on incident response, only thirteen percent said their organizations were above average in incorporating learnings from cyber incidents into resilience strategies.
The survey found little consensus among boards and executives on cyber resiliency planning, including the deployment of strategies across the organization, where to allocate funds, and what areas of the organization are most at risk. The split in cyber preparedness was also apparent across geographies, as North American companies contrast strongly with their peers in Asia and, to some extent, the EU on issues such as expectations for frequency and impact of cyber-attacks, and…
