60 percent of organizations have suffered disruptive cyber events in the last two years

A new study reveals that 60 percent of organizations globally have suffered two or more business-disrupting cyber events -- defined as cyberattacks causing data breaches or significant disruption and downtime to business operations, plant and operational equipment -- in the last 24 months. What's more the research, carried out by the Ponemon Institute for cyber risk specialist Tenable, shows 91 percent have suffered at least one such cyber event in the same time period. But despite this documented history of damaging attacks, the study finds that the majority of organizations (54 percent) are not measuring, and therefore don't fully understand,… [Continue Reading]