Most U.S. firms expect more cyber attacks: Survey
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A total of 82% of U.S. firms believe the number of cyber attacks will continue, and 38% believe the increase will be significant, says a survey released Monday.
The survey of 300 U.S. firms was conducted by Surrey, England-based BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, a unit of BAE Systems P.L.C. Fifty Canadian firms also were surveyed. A separate survey report included 110 U.K. and 51 Australian companies.
According to the U.S. report, 87% of the U.S. firms are confident their organization is well -quipped to prevent targeted cyber attacks.
The survey found that 44% of respondents said they believe that intelligence about upcoming threats would help their boards take action against cyber risks. However, the report says that when BAE “drilled down into the results, there is still a potential danger of lack of real action at board level. This suggests that the challenge may still often be seen as a technology problem alone, rather than something that must be tackled at CEO and board level.”
“The recent attacks demonstrate that there is no 'silver bullet,' and a combination of robust processes, and controls, user awareness and vigilant security operations all have to play a part in protecting the enterprise,” BAE Systems Applied Intelligence managing director Martin Sutherland said in a statement. “However, these approaches are only as good as the information used to implement them.
Companies “will also need to develop holistic threat intelligence management programs supported by security platforms that not only provide the raw intelligence data but also the ability to process and analyze large amounts of complicated information as quickly and clearly as possible,” Mr. Sutherland said.
Copies of both surveys are available here.
