Cybersecurity: Decision makers don't know how to be more proactive. Kaspersky study shows that more than half of decision-makers in Germany have difficulties financing cybersecurity improvements in their company.
Whether attacks on the supply chain or APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) - the threat landscape for companies is constantly evolving and becoming more and more complex. So why are companies so passive in their cybersecurity initiatives? A current Kaspersky study shows that 53,2 percent of decision-makers in Germany want to be more proactive and strengthen their cybersecurity measures - but do not know how.
Decision-makers are becoming more accountable
According to Gartner, decision-makers in companies will be more liable for security incidents in the future. Therefore, companies should strengthen their cyber protection and implement a solid cybersecurity strategy. For this, the company management has to bring its IT department or its Security Operation Center (SOC) in line with all other departments - from HR to marketing and sales - so that the company can operate securely in the future. This requires the implementation of a SOC at the company level and, especially for smaller companies that do not have internal resources, the addition of external threat intelligence or SIEM integration.
According to the Kaspersky survey, half (50,4 percent) of decision-makers in SMEs and companies in Germany are concerned about the lack of internal support to prevent cybersecurity incidents, and around half (48,8 percent) have difficulties finding the necessary ones Obtain funding for cybersecurity optimizations.
Decision-makers lack knowledge of implementation
"The big challenge companies face is that they should, and could, do much more to protect their business, but don't know how to actually do it," notes Christian Milde, General Manager Central Europe at Kaspersky, fixed. “This can be solved by consistently implementing a cybersecurity strategy as part of a top-down model. As a result, investments in security will also bring monetary benefits in the future, since compromises cause significant financial costs. Organizations need to be more proactive than ever to protect both their digital and physical assets across the organization. Basic measures such as protecting end devices are no longer sufficient. With a comprehensive security solution such as Managed Detection and Response - MDR for short, which automatically detects and blocks cyber threats and combines this with outsourced expertise from cyber security experts, the IT team can concentrate on their core tasks again."
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