- Cybersecurity awareness experts say their organization’s current security posture would be weaker if the existing IT security budget focused solely on technical solutions
- 100% claim training staff in IT security has a positive effect on the company’s error culture
- 96% agree that cybersecurity awareness contributes to a higher overall security level
- Organizations must prioritize workforce behavior in relation to data and machines as a pillar of their next-generation IT strategies
- New survey shows IT teams were not fully prepared for the sudden transition to remote work
- 10 months in, secure access and endpoint security remain a top challenge in enabling hybrid work environments
- 66% of IT pros believe the COVID-19 situation will spur increased cybersecurity investments
- Study brings to light the CISO’s dilemma: enhance corporate security or enable worker productivity
- Legacy remote access solutions leave much to be desired in the eyes of CISOs
- Half of CISOs believe security measures affect productivity when scaling remote-first policies
- 35 percent have relaxed security policies to foster greater productivity among remote workers
- 39 percent have left their security policies the same, either because they are comfortable with their company’s security posture or because they don’t know what changes to make
- Threat intel helps organizations navigate an ever-expanding threat landscape
- TIP market to reach $234.9 million by 2022 from $132.7 million in 2019, for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21%
- TIP represents one of the niche markets in cybersecurity that will be least affected by COVID-19, Frost & Sullivan analysts forecast
- Endpoint and IoT security incidents escalate in the past 12 months as employees are forced to work remotely
- The top 3 issues cited by IT decision-makers are malware (78%), insecure network and remote access (61%), and compromised credentials (58%)
- Respondents cite failure to discover, identify and respond to unknown, unmanaged or insecure devices accessing network and cloud resources
- The most critical capability required to mitigate security incidents is monitoring endpoint or IoT devices for malicious or anomalous activity
- Information security policies are not grounded in the realities of an employee’s work responsibilities
- Physicians who are dealing with emergency situations constantly are more likely to leave a workstation unlocked
- Security professionals must find ways to seamlessly integrate ISP compliance within specific job tasks
- Employees want to keep working remotely but admit they are not as productive as in the office
- A third of remote workers consider IT security a low priority
- Almost half of global employees don’t fully understand the notion of a phishing attack
- More than half of organizations have given employees a corporate device for remote work
- 37% of employees say they are not restricted from activities like visiting unsecured websites, sharing personal information, or downloading unvetted software
- 54% of users would still visit a website after receiving a warning about potential security risks associated with the site
- Eight in 10 organizations report that their cybersecurity practices are improving
- Executives, directors, business units and outside firms are now directly engaged in conversations and decisions on cybersecurity matters
- COVID-19 and the shift to remote work have heightened awareness of the need for strong cybersecurity
- Demand for ransomware payments skyrockets during the pandemic period
- Companies that pay ransomware actors, including cyber insurance firms, will face potential sanctions for their actions
- Department of the Treasury says ransomware payments benefit illicit actors and can undermine national security
- 56% of companies say their remote workers actively bypassed security controls to obfuscate online activity
- 70% of the incidents included at least one attempt to circumvent a second security control to exfiltrate data without detection
- 72% of companies surveyed saw data theft attempts by a departing employee wanting to take protected IP with them
- Survey of over 600 IT leaders reveals the extent of COVID-19 disruption from a technological standpoint
- Areas like cybersecurity, network infrastructure and cloud strategy need urgent adaptation for a distributed workforce
- Cybersecurity is the top technology priority for digital transformation projects
