CYBERSECURITY CONFIDENCE FALLS TO 70 PERCENT FOR 2017

摘要

Tenable Network Security Inc released findings from the 2017 Global Cybersecurity Assurance Report Card, in which the world's information security practitioners gave global cybersecurity readiness a "C-"average with an overall score of 70 percent. The 2017 Global Cybersecurity Assurance Report Card solicited insights from 700 security practitioners in nine countries and across seven industry verticals to calculate a global index score reflecting overall confidence that the world's cyber defenses are meeting expectations. According to this year's data, global Cybersecurity confidence fell six points over 2016 to earn an overall score of 70 percent - a "C-"on the report card. The overall decline in confidence is the result of a 12-point drop in the 2017 Risk Assessment Index, which measured the ability of respondents to assess cyber risk across 11 key components of the enterprise information technology (IT) landscape. For the second straight year, practitioners cited the "overwhelming cyber threat environment" as the single biggest challenge facing IT security professionals today, followed closely by "low security awareness among employees"and "lack of network visibility (BYOD, shadow IT)." "Today's network is constantly changing - mobile devices, cloud, loT, web apps, containers, virtual machines - and the data indicate that a lot of organizations lack the visibility they need to feel confident in their security posture," said Cris Thomas, Strategist, Tenable Network Security. "It's pretty clear that newer technologies like DevOps and containers contributed to driving the overall score down, but the real story isn't just one or two things that need improvement, it's that everything needs improvement."