cyber trends
NEW RESEARCH FROM TANIUM
REVEALS THAT WHILE 96% OF BUSINESS
DECISION MAKERS CLAIM BUSINESS
RESILIENCE SHOULD BE CORE TO
COMPANY STRATEGY, ONLY 54% SAY
THAT IT DEFINITELY IS.
N
ew research
released by
Tanium has
found significant
gaps in business
resilience across
organisations
globally. The Resilience Gap study,
which surveyed more than 4,000
business decision makers across the
United States, United Kingdom, France,
Germany and Japan found that while
96% of the global business decision
makers believe that making technology
resilient to business disruptions should
be core to their firm’s wider business
strategy, the reality is very different. In
fact, only 54% of respondents claim that
it definitely is.
Barriers to achieving
business resilience
Despite 96% of respondents claiming
that business resilience is important to
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Tanium study
finds gaps in
business
across global
organisations
their organisation, several barriers to
achieving business resilience remain,
with clear challenges between internal
organisational structures and access
to the right skills and technology. Over
a third (34%) blame their organisation’s
growing complexity, while one fifth (20%)
blame siloed business units.
Looking to their team and tools, a third
(33%) say the issue lies with the hackers
being more sophisticated than IT teams,
21% claim that they don’t have the skills
needed within the company to accurately
detect cyberbreaches in real-time and
almost a quarter (24%) claim that poor
visibility of entry points is the biggest
barrier to business resilience.
“In 2018 alone, companies will spend
over one trillion dollars making their
enterprises even more digital, [according
to the IDC Spending Guide, December
2017], launching more applications,
expanding IT services and creating
new connections with their partners
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