Major cyberattack readiness gap among cyber leaders uncovered

Cybersecurity leaders continue to be ill-equipped to respond to imminent cyberattacks, Cybersecurity Dive reports.

While over 75% of senior cybersecurity decision managers reported their companies to have been subjected to a cyberattack within the past year, and that 99% of firms have established formal incident response plans, 73% claimed they would not be adequately prepared to handle an upcoming cyber intrusion, according to a Sygnia report. Some of the issues found to have driven this gap include poor coordination among key stakeholders during an attack, limited incident response preparation and decision-making involvement from senior leadership, delays caused by legal and communications concerns, and visibility gaps such as those created by public cloud and software-as-a-service environments.

Additional findings showed that regulations have also hindered the development of a well-honed incident response playbook, particularly in healthcare and other sectors. Such a report comes amid significant changes in conducting cyberattacks, with threat operations increasingly using AI and software-as-a-service platform vulnerabilities to launch ransomware and supply chain attacks, respectively.