94% of organizations experienced at least one business-impacting cyberattack in the past year
Tenable®, Inc. released a study that revealed the vast majority of organizations (94 percent) have experienced a business-impacting cyberattack in the past 12 months, according to both business and security executives. The data is drawn from ‘The Rise of the Business-Aligned Security Executive,’ a commissioned study of more than 800 global business and cybersecurity leaders conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Tenable.
Business leaders want a clear picture of how at risk they are and how that risk is changing as they plan and execute business strategies. But only four out of 10 security leaders say they can answer the fundamental question, “How secure, or at risk, are we?” with a high level of confidence, despite the prevalence of business-impacting cyberattacks. Fewer than 50 percent of security leaders said they are framing cybersecurity threats within the context of a specific business risk. For example, though 96 percent of respondents had developed response strategies to the COVID-19 pandemic, 75 percent of business and security leaders admitted their response strategies were only “somewhat” aligned.