[Report] 90% experienced more cyberattacks when the world stayed home

As part of a global study to uncover the biggest impacts of the pandemic on IT, Censuswide polled 1,004 global IT leaders   When the World Stayed Home Cyberattacks Increased As Global IT Leaders Worked to Gain Foothold What happened when organizations were forced to move to a distributed workforce overnight? Read the report, get insights from analysts and hear from global leaders on how to prepare for whatever comes next. ACCESS THE REPORT 90% experienced increase in cyberattacks #1 concern was identifying remote endpoints 98% saw security challenges rise 93% delayed security priorities It’s not new news that COVID-19 exposed enterprise security gaps. Hackers went to town – 90% of IT leaders saw an uptick in cyberattacks – while key security projects were delayed.   More alarming is the contrast that 85% of leaders felt ready to shift to a fully distributed workforce, yet 98% were caught off guard by security challenges they faced within the first two months. The top three security challenges include:   Identifying new personal computing devices Overwhelmed IT capacity due to VPN requirements Increased security risk from video conferencing   In addition, 43% of CXOs reported trouble deploying patches, and 26% admitted to de-prioritizing patching all together during this time of transition.   What else is your enterprise facing in this distributed workforce?   In the first two months of the pandemic, Tanium helped hundreds of the world’s most demanding organizations transition to this unplanned, distributed workforce. We hope that their experiences, expert perspectives and findings of a recent global survey can help you as you gain foothold. ACCESS THE REPORT   SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES — You are subscribed as jonsan98@gmail.com. If you do not wish to receive future emails regarding assets and information from carefully selected CSO partners, please update your email preferences. Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an email to newsletters@idg.com. When accessing content promoted in this email, you are providing consent for your information to be shared with the sponsors of the content. Please see our privacy policy for more information. © 2020 | CSO | 492 Old Connecticut Path | Framingham, MA 01701 | csoonline.com Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.