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Benchmarking Cybersecurity: CISOs and Security Leaders Share Perspectives on Managing Evolving Global Risks

By Jessica Block and Ari Kaplan
March 01, 2018

In a hyperactive security landscape, new threats often emerge faster than organizations can mount defenses. While they routinely create solutions to rapidly combat information uncertainty, security leaders are battling a relentless foe on multiple fronts. By combining tools, teams and tenacity in the face of a shifting regulatory environment and a complex business climate, they are beginning to acclimate to the perpetual uncertainty that now characterizes the modern economy.

To help them benchmark information management protocols, insider threat practices, security investments, and an array of issues that impact an organization's data protection techniques, Ankura Consulting commissioned Ari Kaplan Advisors to engage 30 security leaders, 70% of whom were their company's chief information security officer (CISO), in a collective conversation about the cross-functional solutions they are applying to today's most complex challenges and the creative ways they are adapting to a perilous threat landscape.

Ari Kaplan Advisors conducted the interviews by telephone, under condition of anonymity, in August of 2017. While most participants were based in the United States, the report includes perspectives from Europe and Australia. Given that 67% of the respondents were from the highly-regulated financial services and life sciences industries, the responses skew toward strong levels of awareness about cybersecurity and data governance, though a review of the remaining third from non-regulated industries reflects a more measured viewpoint.

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