Rapid7 Introduces Industry Cyber-Exposure Report: Nikkei 225

Rapid7 Introduces Industry Cyber-Exposure Report: Nikkei 225

Today, Rapid7 released our fourth Industry Cyber-Exposure Report (ICER) examining the overall exposure of the companies listed in the Nikkei 225 index. The Nikkei 225 is a selection of Japanese common stocks, drawn from the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange maintained by The Nikkei newspaper. All of the companies in the Nikkei 225 are headquartered in Japan, and, similar to the Dow Jones Industrial Index in the United States, it is an index intended to represent the industrial and corporate base of the Japanese economy. Because of this, we believe that the companies listed in the Nikkei 225 create a reasonable list of the largest, best-run, and most culturally significant companies in the Japanese economy.



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The report reveals that even among very large, mature, and well-resourced organizations, we see evidence of cybersecurity basics being missed or deployed insufficiently. This hints at the complexity and breadth required for a comprehensive security program, which is a never-ending challenge in which there is always more that can be done, constrained by limited resources and time, regardless of the size of the organization. If this challenge cannot be comprehensively met by these very large, high-revenue organizations, just imagine how much worse it is for smaller organizations with far fewer resources to apply to security.


Sure, you might think smaller organizations are less likely to be targeted by attackers, but that’s probably no ..

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