23 July 2024
New research from SoSafe finds that 85% of security professionals in the UK agree that the threat landscape is the most challenging it has been in the past five years, and only 44% think the situation has a chance of improving in the next 12 months.
One in every two security professionals have experienced a successful cyberattack in the last year, with 52% of respondents throughout Europe and 55% in the United Kingdom saying their company had been impacted. These attacks (and the threat of them) have serious consequences – 60% of security professionals say the risk of a cyberattack having a substantially negative impact on their organization is high. The survey shows that human vulnerability is seen as the most likely origin of successful cyberattack (36%) while Forrester predicts that this share will be as high as 90% in 2024, demonstrating the need for more holistic, behavioural-based approaches to transform employees into an active part of cyber defences.
“Organisations are caught in a pincer movement, with threats rising from every angle. This current age of geopolitical instability is creating new motives and new opportunities for criminals and state actors to cause damage. With access to the latest, sophisticated AI-powered tools, attacks are coming in unexpected forms from unexpected plans. We must not underestimate the size and scale of this threat and empower people to confront it, helping organisations to establish the human layer as most versatile part of their security strategies,” said Niklas Hellemann, psychologist and CEO of SoSafe.
