{"id":574,"date":"2015-06-12T09:05:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T13:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/?p=574"},"modified":"2015-06-12T09:05:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T13:05:39","slug":"75-of-companies-worldwide-face-significant-risk-exposure-rsa-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/75-of-companies-worldwide-face-significant-risk-exposure-rsa-survey-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"75% of Companies Worldwide Face Significant Risk Exposure, RSA Survey Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/06\/RSA_POVERTY_INDEX.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-575 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/06\/RSA_POVERTY_INDEX.jpg\" alt=\"RSA_POVERTY_INDEX\" width=\"600\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/06\/RSA_POVERTY_INDEX.jpg 600w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/06\/RSA_POVERTY_INDEX-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Nearly three-quarters of companies worldwide are facing significant cybersecurity risk exposure, according to RSA\u2019s Inaugural CyberSecurity Poverty Index report.<\/p>\n<p>RSA characterizes the report as \u201cthe result of an annual maturity self-assessment completed by organizations of all sizes, industries, and geographies across the globe.\u201d The assessment, which was created using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), was completed by more than 400 security professionals across 61 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The cybersecurity company conducted the survey with the stated goals of providing a measure of the risk management and security capabilities of the global population and giving organizations a way to benchmark their capabilities against peers.<\/p>\n<p>Respondents were ranked on a five-point scale along the following lines: 1 \u2013 Negligent, 2 \u2013 Deficient, 3 \u2013Functional, 4 \u2013 Developed, and 5 \u2013 Advantaged.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>[From Authentify to RSA, Solutions Review rounds up the top 24 Identity and Access Management solutions in the 2015 IAM Solutions Buyer\u2019s Guide. <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/get-a-free-identity-and-access-management-software-solutions-buyers-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\">Download your free copy today!<\/a><\/span>]<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>As noted above, overall survey results found that nearly 75 percent of respondents face significant cybersecurity risk exposure\u00a0and had their overall capabilities ranked below the developed category. Out of over 400 companies surveyed, only five percent were ranked for advanced capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The report also found that the size of an organization is not an adequate indication of its security maturity. 83 percent of organizations with more than 10,000 employees indicated that they are unprepared to face modern security threats, compared to 68 percent of organizations with 1,000-10,000 employees, and 79% of those with less than 1,000 employees.<\/p>\n<p>The research demonstrates a widespread feeling of unpreparedness in enterprise-level businesses worldwide, says Amit Yoran, President of RSA. \u00a0\u201cEnterprises continue to pour vast amounts of money into next-generation firewalls, anti-virus, and advanced malware protection in the hopes of stopping advanced threats,\u201d Yoran said in a prepared statement. Yoran suggests that organizations acknowledge that focusing on prevention alone is \u201ca failed strategy,\u201d and shift their focus to a strategy based on threat detection and adequate response.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the report in its entirety <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emc.com\/collateral\/ebook\/rsa-cybersecurity-poverty-index-ebook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly three-quarters of companies worldwide are facing significant cybersecurity risk exposure, according to RSA\u2019s Inaugural CyberSecurity Poverty Index report. RSA characterizes the report as \u201cthe result of an annual maturity self-assessment completed by organizations of all sizes, industries, and geographies across the globe.\u201d The assessment, which was created using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16,102],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>75% of Companies Worldwide Face Significant Risk Exposure, RSA Survey Finds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nearly three-quarters of companies worldwide are facing significant cybersecurity risk exposure, according to RSA\u2019s Inaugural CyberSecurity Poverty Index report.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/75-of-companies-worldwide-face-significant-risk-exposure-rsa-survey-finds\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeff Edwards\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/75-of-companies-worldwide-face-significant-risk-exposure-rsa-survey-finds\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/75-of-companies-worldwide-face-significant-risk-exposure-rsa-survey-finds\/\",\"name\":\"75% of Companies Worldwide Face Significant Risk Exposure, RSA Survey Finds\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/75-of-companies-worldwide-face-significant-risk-exposure-rsa-survey-finds\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/75-of-companies-worldwide-face-significant-risk-exposure-rsa-survey-finds\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/06\/RSA_POVERTY_INDEX.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-06-12T13:05:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-06-12T13:05:39+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/#\/schema\/person\/3d31b4b6a777a91476a65c087be260e6\"},\"description\":\"Nearly three-quarters of companies worldwide are facing significant cybersecurity risk exposure, according to RSA\u2019s Inaugural CyberSecurity Poverty Index report.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/75-of-companies-worldwide-face-significant-risk-exposure-rsa-survey-finds\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/75-of-companies-worldwide-face-significant-risk-exposure-rsa-survey-finds\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/75-of-companies-worldwide-face-significant-risk-exposure-rsa-survey-finds\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/06\/RSA_POVERTY_INDEX.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/06\/RSA_POVERTY_INDEX.jpg\",\"width\":600,\"height\":334},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/75-of-companies-worldwide-face-significant-risk-exposure-rsa-survey-finds\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"75% of Companies Worldwide Face Significant Risk Exposure, RSA Survey Finds\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/\",\"name\":\"Best Identity Access Management (IAM) Software, Tools, Vendors, Solutions, &amp; 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