You don’t have to look far to find news of a major data breach these days. It seems as though cyber security is a term sitting front and center on many minds while malicious attacks continue to damage companies and corporations. But the consequences of cyber attacks don’t only affect corporate bottom lines. Lax cyber security affects all of us.
The Colonial Pipeline breach in May 2021 resulted in higher gasoline prices, panic buying and local shortages after the company’s pipelines were shut down by payment-seeking hackers.
Despite the potential for disastrous results, some organizations are still struggling to treat cyber security like a business-ending, bottom-line financial threat. And the companies who do want to ante up still find it hard to keep up with the speed of cybercrime.
So, what keeps information security pros and business leaders up at night? To get a better picture of the threats in the cyber landscape, we asked professionals in cyber security to share some of the most common cyber security problems they see.
The top cyber security problems organizations are facing
Cyber security problems can range from things as granular as out-of-date software to large-scale struggles like a lack of support from leadership teams. The following is a sampling of the most common issues facing information security professionals and the organizations they serve.
- Recognizing that you are a target.
- Failure to inform employees of threats
- Data breaches due to remote work
- Ransomware attacks
- Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) threats
- Losing sight of the ‘backup plan’
- Lack of a corporate security program
- Treating cyber security like an IT issue instead of a financial issue
- Lack of information security representation on the board
You don’t have to look far to find news of a major data breach these days. It seems as though cyber security is a term sitting front and center on many minds while malicious attacks continue to damage companies and corporations.
