cyber trends
brand equity – not to mention
productivity,” added Damato.
“Business resilience is the
practice to ensure that
the technology running
the business can adapt
to disruption. To deliver
resilience, governments and
enterprise organisations require
a new approach that moves
beyond a simple focus on prevention
and recovery.”
“Organisations need to ensure that
data is accurate and actionable and
that starts with having real time visibility
and control over all computing devices.
Without uniting teams and reducing
the fragmentation, teams will continue
to invest in new point solutions and
ultimately struggle to make the business
resilient,” concluded Damato.
The UK in focus
The study revealed that 99% of UK
business leaders believe that making
technology resilient to business
disruptions such as cyberthreats
should be core to their firms’ wider
business strategy – although again, the
reality is different.
confusion internally on where the
responsibility for resilience lies. Almost
a third (30%) believe it should be the
responsibility of the CIO or head of
IT, while 23% say every employee
should be responsible and 13% state
responsibility lies with the CEO alone.
This disparity is dramatic across
countries, with a third of business
decision makers in the US claiming it’s
not just one person’s responsibility but
everybody’s responsibility to ensure
business resilience. calculate the impact of a cyberbreach
on indirect cost from lost revenue
and productivity, and 28% admit they
wouldn’t know if they would be able to
calculate the financial cost incurred for
response efforts.
Impact of a lack of resilience “Businesses are becoming entirely
dependent upon their technology
platforms. But if that technology stops
running, the business will too – with
potentially disastrous consequences
for sales, customer confidence and
A lack of business resilience can also
severely impact a firm’s bottom line. A
third (33%) of organisations say they
could not or don’t know if they could
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In addition, 29% of organisations state
they would not know if they would be
able to calculate the impact of the
loss or exposure of protected data,
particularly concerning in the year that
GDPR has come into force.
Only half (54%) claim their organisation
is definitely as resilient as it needs to
be with a fifth (20%) admitting they
would not be able to calculate indirect
costs from lost revenue and productivity
following a cyberattack.
Matt Ellard, Managing Director of EMEA
at Tanium, added: “The speed of digital
transformation has led organisations
to purchase multiple tools to solve IT
security and operations challenges,
which is leaving IT infrastructures
vulnerable to threats.
“Organisations need to build a strategy
for business resilience and that starts
with ensuring they have real-time
visibility of where threats exist across
their network, most crucially at the
endpoints. If you can’t pinpoint current
vulnerabilities or the origin of a threat,
how can you expect to defend
against them?” u
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