Measuring Cyber Resilience - A Rising Tide Raises All Ships
I admit it … I am one of the 143,000,000 people afflicted by the Equifax breach. For those of us who reside in the US, that number approaches 60% of all adults, based on recent numbers from the US Census Bureau. Perhaps most unsettling is that failing to perform something as routine as a timely patch produced an event so catastrophic that it cost the CISO, CIO and CEO their jobs. Make no mistake about it, accountability for cyber resilience is in the boardroom and rests heavy on the shoulders of those in the C-suite. This is accentuated by the data from a recently completed study by ISACA and MIT which overwhelmingly confirmed that CEOs and boards are leading enterprise digital technology initiatives.
Strong oversight of cyber security is now a critical component of organizations' overall governance of their information and technology, and on that front, there remains some steep hills to climb. ISACA's new Better Tech Governance is Better for Business research shows that only a little more than half of senior business leaders think their organization's leadership team and board are doing all that they can to safeguard the organization's digital assets, and less than half of boards intend to fund a significant expansion of their cyber defenses in the coming year, despite expanding attack surfaces and daily changes to the threat landscape...
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