90% of IT managers believe that organizations compromise cybersecurity in favor of other goals

The friction that is generated in organizations between those responsible for IT and business and the board of directors on the occasion of cybersecurity raises the need to establish a new way of talking about the risks they face, when most of those responsible IT believes that organizations compromise cybersecurity in favor of other goals.

82 percent of decision-makers in the TI has felt pressure to minimize the severity of cyber risks before its board of directors, as is clear from the latest study shared by the cybersecurity company Trend Micro.

This study, conducted by Sapio Research and in which 5,321 decision-makers of business and IT decisions of companies with more than 250 employees in 26 countries participated, indicates that for 90 percent of IT respondents their company would be willing to compromise cybersecurity in favor of digital transformation, productivity or other goals.

Behind the self-censorship by IT employees lies the fear of “Seem repetitive or too negative”, as the technical director of Trend Micro Iberia has pointed out, Jose de la Cruz. The pressure is also constant, according to almost a third of those surveyed.

This situation raises the need for a new way of talking about business risk, as highlighted by the cybersecurity company. “We need to talk about risk in a way that frames cybersecurity as a critical driver of business growth, helping to unite IT and business leaders who are actually fighting both for the same cause.”, defends de la Cruz.

The research reveals that only 50 percent of the managers of TI and 38 percent of business decision makers believe that top management fully understands cyber risks. Although some think this is because the subject is complex and constantly changing, many believe that top management is not trying hard enough (26%) or does not want to understand it (20%).

There is also a disagreement between IT and business leaders over who is ultimately responsible for managing and mitigating risk. IT executives are almost twice as likely as business leaders to point to teams of TI and to CISO. 49 percent of respondents say that cyber risks are still treated as an IT problem rather than a business risk.

From Trend Micro indicate that this friction is causing potentially serious problems: 52 percent of respondents agree that their organization’s attitude to cyber risk it is inconsistent and varies from month to month. However, 31 percent of respondents believe that cybersecurity is the biggest business risk today, and 66 percent say it has the highest cost impact of all business risks.

C-level executives would sit down and take note of the risk cybernetic in the event of a security breach in your organization, as 62 percent of the slope participants believe. Another 62 percent believe it would be helpful if they could better report and more easily explain the business risk of cyber threats, while 61 percent would influence if customers started demanding more sophisticated security credentials.

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Deshawn