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• Understanding and anticipating new or potential future strategies used by threat actors – 55 % ( 84 %)
• Ensuring that the entire supply chain is water-tight in its ability to defend and recover against threat actors – 52 % ( 83 %)
Juggling cybersecurity priorities
Not only do organisations feel they are chasing their next cyber strategy , but they are struggling to deliver on the one they have now . CISOs highlighted the following key priorities over the next 12 months :
• The cyber skills gap within organisations is the highest strategic priority ( 31 %). This has been a perpetual problem facing the IT industry and cybersecurity teams can become quickly overwhelmed if the right expertise isn ’ t in place to manage the load . The effects of this can be devastating , creating risk vectors that can be exploited and may lead to human error under pressure , or a missed threat . Rather than hunting new people , the gap could in part be addressed by putting more resources into training and upskilling , but this is difficult when team capacity is already stretched .
• The next most important priority highlighted by CISOs is the challenge of gaining consistent and reliable ‘ threat intelligence ’ ( 28 %), with many reporting they rely on informal information sharing networks .
• Securing digital identity ( 27 %) was also identified as key given the risks www . intelligentciso . com
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