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Benchmarking Cybersecurity Environments
by Christopher Schütze
Addressing cybersecurity within a company often occurs in response to an incident which impacts a business’ operations. A cyber incident could be a data breach or malicious disclosure of internal information to the public. Ideally a company starts thinking about cybersecurity before they are forced to act by an incident. Preparations for a cyber incident can be made through an internal or external benchmarking of the cybersecurity landscape. What to expect from a benchmarking exercise To ensure a benchmarking preparation offers real value to the company, the expectations and...
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Cyber-Attacks: Why Preparing to Fail Is the Best You Can Do
by Christopher Schütze
Nowadays, it seems that no month goes by without a large cyber-attack on a company becoming public. Usually, these attacks not only affect revenue of the attacked company but reputation as well. Nevertheless, this is still a completely underestimated topic in some companies. In the United Kingdom 43% of businesses experienced a cybersecurity breach in the past twelve months, according to the 2018 UK Cyber Security Breaches Survey . On the other hand, 74% say that cybersecurity is a high priority for them. So where is the gap, and why does it exist? The gap exists between the decision to...