There is a significant disconnection between the confidence of you in the ability of their companies to face failures in their systems and the effectiveness of their current cybersecurity approaches. And, despite the fact that a large majority of you in Spain trust the ability of their companies to handle blackouts (93%), voltage falls (95%), catastrophic failures (80%) and cyber attacks ( 89%), only 44% consider that their IT infrastructure is highly resilient.
This is high The last six months. Globally, these figures are 60% and 45%, respectively.
Despite this high expectation of failures, 39% of those responsible for IT in Spain have not reviewed its cyber resilience strategy in more than six months, and only 51% believe that its strategy is updated to face the rise of the rise of the Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Jay Chaudhry, CEO of Zscaler, underlines the need for proactive resilience to combat and mitigate inevitable incidents before they become serious problems for business continuity, “cyber resilience is essential for the general resilience of the business. Obsolete Firewalls and VPNS allow persistent attacks, so a Zero Trust architecture is crucial to defend against advanced threats, and end the great disconnection between trust and preparation in cybersecurity.
In Spain, 41% of companies have already experienced a cybersecurity gap in the last six months
Disconnection: Trust and preparation in cybersecurity
The survey also highlights a lack of investment and prioritization in cyber resilience by managers. Only 29% of respondents in Spain believe that cyber resilience is one of the main priorities of their managers, compared to 39% globally. In addition, 46% of participants in Spain believe that the level of investment in cybercraft does not satisfy the growing need, a figure that amounts to 49% worldwide.
“With the growing threat panorama, which includes AI -based attacks, and continuous pressure to be digitized, which does not seem to decrease in the short term, our attack surfaces continue to expand beyond our control. A solid and proactive resilience strategy guarantees a basis that will not collapse even before a successful attack and that can be remedied more quickly. Organizations need to transform their network and security architecture and adopt a Zero Trust ‘Resilient By Design’ approach to face the dangers of a digital future, ”says Marcos Jimena, an architect of transformation in the southern region of Europe of Zscaler.
The lack of involvement of managers in the planning of cyber resilience is evident. In most Spanish companies, this responsibility falls mainly on those responsible for IT and their teams, with less than half of the fissures actively participating in planning. Only 37% of those responsible in Spain affirm that its cybercraft strategy is included in the company’s general resilience plan, with the aim of ending the great disconnection between trust and cybersecurity preparation.
Worldwide, 85% of you are responsible for your company to resist or recover from significant failure. However, half of IT executives in Spain believe that their company excessively prioritizes prevention, with more than 43% of cybersecurity strategies and budgets focused on prevention, to the detriment of response and recovery.
Even among organizations that focus on prevention, less than half use proactive security tools to contain the impact of cyber attacks. Only 41% use Zero Trust microsegmentation, 39% use risk search and 33% use deception technologies.
