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New WikiLeaks dump builds confidence in our side's hacking skills
Hot Air Assuming, of course, that all the infamous hacking behavior really was real bad guys like China, Russia or North Korea and not our own good bad guys pretending to be bad, bad guys hacking our side. Apparently, see, there are electronic fingerprints … |
Directors of U.S. businesses are pretty confident they can understand corporate security risks, but corporate security pros are not so sure their boards really get it, according to a survey of both board members and C-level security executives.
While 70% of board members say they understand the risks, only 43% of hired corporate security professionals agree, according to a Ponemon Institute study polling 245 board members and 409 IT security pros that was sponsored by Fidelis Cybersecurity.
Based on this finding the study concludes that, “more communication between the board and the IT function is sorely needed.”
There are other gaps between what board members think and what CIOs, CSOs and CISOs think. For example, 59% of board members say they believe their governance of cybersecurity practices is effective; only 18% of IT pros agree.
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Despite being a $40 billion a year global industry, cyber security is facing a crisis of confidence. The escalation of the “Hack Du Jour” from simple identity theft, large scale data breaches, corporate and government espionage and Wikileaks …
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