Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has announced the findings of its global survey, Cybersecurity: The Human Challenge, which reveals that organisations are never the same after being hit by ransomware. In particular, the confidence of IT managers and their approach to battling cyberattacks differ significantly depending on whether or not their organisation has been attacked by ransomware.
For instance, IT managers at organisations hit by ransomware are nearly three times as likely to feel ‘significantly behind’ when it comes to understanding cyberthreats, compared to their peers in organisations that were unaffected (17% versus 6%). This compares to 8% for the UK.
More than one third (35%) of ransomware victims said that recruiting and retaining skilled IT security professionals was their single biggest challengewhen it comes to cybersecurity, compared with just 19% of those who hadn’t been hit. In the UK, 14% felt this way.
When it comes to security focus, the survey found that ransomware victims spend proportionally less time on threat prevention (42.6%) and more time on response (27%) compared to those who haven’t been hit (49% and 22% respectively), diverting resources towards dealing with incidents rather than stopping them in the first place. The proportions for the UK were 47.55% prevention and 23.53% response.
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