{"id":22671,"date":"2016-05-30T11:27:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T03:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=22671"},"modified":"2016-05-30T11:29:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T03:29:24","slug":"darkmatter-poll-reveals-48-orgs-still-lack-key-cyber-security-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2016\/05\/30\/darkmatter-poll-reveals-48-orgs-still-lack-key-cyber-security-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"DarkMatter poll reveals 48% of orgs still lack key cyber security personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"

DarkMatter, a cyber security firm headquartered in the UAE, found that 48% of respondents to its DarkMatter Cyber Security Poll say their organizations do not have a senior management executive assigned to oversee cyber security, while 46% of respondents said their organizations did not have a Board-level representative responsible for cyber security.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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DarkMatter was able to poll the answers of over 200 information and communication technology (ICT).<\/p>\n

The poll identified that 23% of respondents believe that their organizations have been victim to an internal cyber security breach, while 32% believe their organizations have fallen victim to an external attack. This suggests external threats pose a greater threat to organizations’ digital assets than internal ones, with a further poll result indicating 46% of respondents believe cyber security breaches are most often the result of human factors.<\/p>\n

While the expectation is that cyber threats will persist, the DarkMatter\u00a0advises entities to assume a state of breach, in order to establish the necessary strategic and tactical posture to guard against and mitigate cyber risks.<\/p>\n

“Raising awareness regarding the real and evolving threat of cyber attacks is imperative in any modern, digital society. It is not about fear-mongering, it is about understanding what is at risk when entities and people operate in a connected online environment; what threat actors may be present and what they are in search of; and what steps can be taken to reduce vulnerabilities or mitigate threats,” said the company’s CEO Faisal Al Bannai.<\/p>\n

However, challenges still exist given 34% of respondents said if their organization was to experience a cyber security incident, they did not believe it possessed sufficient network monitoring capabilities to identify the breach in a timely fashion.<\/p>\n

Also, 49% of respondents said they believed cyber security is ultimately the responsibility of the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) more than it is the organization using it, which is a cause for concern as it may result in companies abdicating the responsibility of actively defending their data assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The poll identified that 23% of respondents believe that their organizations have been victim to an internal cyber security breach, while 32% believe their organizations have fallen victim to an external attack. This suggests external threats pose a greater threat to organizations’ digital assets than internal ones, with a further poll result indicating 46% of respondents believe cyber security breaches are most often the result of human factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1923,1481,4392,54],"class_list":["post-22671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-cloud-security","tag-cybersecurity","tag-darkmatter","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}