Survey Reveals 85% of CISOs Sacrificed Cybersecurity to Enable Employees to Work Remotely
Netwrix released its 2020 Cyber Threats Report
IRVINE, Calif. — Netwrix released its 2020 Cyber Threats Report, which summarizes feedback from 937 IT professionals worldwide about the recent cyberthreats they have faced and how quickly they were able to respond. Netwrix conducted this online survey in June 2020 to understand how the pandemic and ensuing work-from-home (WFH) initiatives changed the IT risk landscape.
The survey revealed that 25% of organizations feel they are exposed to more risks than before the pandemic. Of them, 63% reported an increase in the frequency of cyberattacks, and 60% found new security gaps as a result of the transition to remote work. What is more worrisome is that 85% of CISOs said they had sacrificed cybersecurity to quickly enable remote work — and that’s just those who admitted it.