Nominet has today announced the findings of its Cyber Confidence Report, which analysed almost 300 senior security practitioners in the UK and US, and found that CISOs were being put in compromising positions. Seventy-one percent said that their organisation uses the security posture of the organisation as a selling point, despite their lack of confidence in the security stack.
When asked how confident they were in an organisation’s final choice of security solutions, 34 percent of CISOs said that they were only somewhat or slightly confident. In addition, only 17 percent of those questioned said that the array of technology making up their security stack was completely effective. There is clearly some way to go before true cyber confidence from the CISO can be gained.
“It is critical that security professionals and the wider business are on the same page when it comes to cyber defence,” said Stuart Reed, VP of Cyber Security at Nominet. “While it is natural that a CISO might be slightly more cautious about claiming the effectiveness of the security solutions in place – because there is no silver bullet – more than a third not being even moderately confident in the final choice of a security solution is a worry, particularly when businesses are touting the benefits of their cyber defence. This disconnect in cyber confidence should act as an alarm bell to organisations and potentially prompt some investigation and analysis.”
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