A majority of global chief information security officers (CISOs) surveyed as part of a report released Wednesday said they feel their organizations are unprepared to face a cyberattack, despite many believing they will face an attack in the next year.
The report, compiled by cybersecurity group Proofpoint, was based on a survey of 1,400 CISOs in 14 different countries including the United States. The results highlighted a brutal year for security professionals struggling to cope during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Organizational cyber preparedness is still a major concern, and more than a year into this pandemic, it really changed the threat landscape, 66 percent of CISOs feel their organization is unprepared to cope with a targeted cyberattack in 2021,” Lucia Milică, global resident CISO at Proofpoint and the report’s lead author, told The Hill ahead of the report’s release.
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The findings of the survey revealed that CISOs are overworked and overwhelmed after a year in which the COVID-19 pandemic pushed more daily activities online, giving cyber criminals more targets for attack.
Around 64 percent of CISOs said they believe they will face some form of cyberattack in the next 12 months.
Many of these concerns were due to increased remote work, with more than half of the CISOs surveyed agreeing with the notion that a hybrid work environment had made their jobs more difficult, and 60 percent seeing an increase in targeted attacks due to remote work over the past year.
Additionally, many security leaders felt a perceived lack of understanding from company leadership, with only 25 percent reporting that their boards were on the same page with th ..
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