Current Cybersecurity Practices

The common thread throughout the report is that IT pros feel less positive about the cybersecurity situation than their business counterparts. The issue starts at a very high level, with overall satisfaction around the current organizational state of cybersecurity.

This plays out in two key areas where business staff may be less aware than IT pros:
Current vulnerabilities (assuming the company hasn’t had a major breach yet)
The relationship between new technology models and new security needs

The first step IT pros should take is giving a clear description of the modern environment — the challenges in cloud/mobile architecture, the breadth of cyberattacks and the tradeoffs involved in balancing innovation and cybersecurity.

There’s a good chance that satisfaction with cybersecurity and understanding of cybersecurity are closely related. Where most business staff feel that the organization has a high level of understanding around the topic, most IT pros feel that there is room for improvement.

After building foundational knowledge around the modern digital environment, IT pros need to describe how today’s security is different:
There are new technical tools that address issues like data loss or identity management.
There are new processes that mitigate risk or maintain compliance.
And there are new responsibilities for every member of the workforce using technology as part of the job.

Most business staff classify cybersecurity as an issue that they want IT to own, but they probably do not understand the degree of complexity involved in organizational security, especially as technology adoption speeds up.

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