Eighty-four percent of CISOs in North America believe cybersecurity breaches are inevitable, and a lack of influence in the boardroom is making it difficult to justify the necessary cybersecurity budgets, according to a survey of 250 IT decision-makers by Kaspersky Lab.
The report found that CISOs believe financially motivated criminal gangs (40 percent) and malicious insider attacks (29 percent) are the biggest IT security threats to their business today. In addition, the rise of cyber threats in the midst of a digital transformation is making the CISO role increasingly critical; 57 percent of CISOs consider complex infrastructures involving cloud and mobility to be their top challenge, followed by managing personal data and sensitive information (54 percent) and worrying about the continuing increase of cyberattacks (50 percent).