"Cisco Survey Reveals Increased Focus on Cybersecurity Resilience"

According to a global survey of 4,700 Information Technology (IT) professionals conducted by Cisco, the most common types of incidents were network or data breaches (52 percent), followed by network or system outages (51 percent), ransomware events (47 percent), and Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks (46 percent). Sixty-two percent of organizations reported a security event that impacted business operations in the last two years, including IT and communications disruption (63 percent), supply chain disruption (43 percent), impaired internal operations (41 percent), and long-term brand damage (40 percent). Security resilience is now a high priority for 96 percent of respondents. According to Wendy Nather, Cisco's head of advisory CISOs, the survey revealed that organizations are changing their approach to cybersecurity as they deal with a chronic shortage of cybersecurity skills when attacks continue to increase in volume and sophistication. Cisco also ranked survey participants based on their overall resilience, finding that organizations with a mature zero-trust model have a 30 percent higher resilience score than those without such a model. Compared to organizations that did not have detection and response capabilities, advanced Extended Detection and Response (XDR) capabilities resulted in a 45 percent increase in resilience. Cloud-based Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions improve organizations' security resiliency by 27 percent. Organizations with poor C-suite security support scored 39 percent lower than those with strong executive support, while businesses with an excellent security culture scored 46 percent higher on average. The precise location of IT resources appears to have little impact on cybersecurity resilience. Organizations that are primarily on-premises or primarily cloud-based had the highest and nearly identical security resilience scores. However, organizations in the early stages of transitioning from an on-premises to a hybrid cloud environment saw resilience scores drop by 9 percent to 14 percent, depending on how difficult the hybrid environments were to manage. This article continues to discuss findings from Cisco's survey of IT professionals on security resilience.

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