{"id":2790,"date":"2019-10-15T11:21:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T15:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2019-10-15T11:21:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T15:21:54","slug":"40-percent-of-security-practitioners-dont-report-to-the-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/40-percent-of-security-practitioners-dont-report-to-the-board\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Percent of Security Practitioners Don&#8217;t Report to the Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2716\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2019\/07\/2019-SIEM-CEO-MAIN-MOD.jpg\" alt=\"40 Percent of Security Practitioners Don't Report to the Board\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2019\/07\/2019-SIEM-CEO-MAIN-MOD.jpg 800w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2019\/07\/2019-SIEM-CEO-MAIN-MOD-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2019\/07\/2019-SIEM-CEO-MAIN-MOD-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2019\/07\/2019-SIEM-CEO-MAIN-MOD-540x270.jpg 540w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2019\/07\/2019-SIEM-CEO-MAIN-MOD-162x81.jpg 162w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2019\/07\/2019-SIEM-CEO-MAIN-MOD-360x180.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">63 percent of American security practitioners don\u2019t report to their C-Suite board on a regular basis. In fact, 40 percent say they don\u2019t report at all. Continuous security validation provider AttackIQ, working with the Ponemon Institute, discovered these findings in a survey of 577 IT practitioners. You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/attackiq.com\/press-room\/ponemon-study-only-28-percent-enterprises-say-ceo-and-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><div class=\"box box3\">Our <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/siem-buyers-guide-security-information-and-event-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SIEM Buyer&#8217;s Guide<\/a> helps you evaluate the best solution for your use case and features profiles of the leading solution providers.<\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, AttackIQ and Ponemon Institute also learned:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">69 percent of American security practitioners say their enterprise security focuses on reactions and incidents.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">63 percent say their IT security leadership needs better monitoring tools to improve their communication and security infrastructure effectiveness.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also, 56 percent report their IT security infrastructure suffers from coverage gaps.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Simultaneously, only 24 percent of respondents say they have a mature measurement program for their cybersecurity.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">40 percent of respondents say they do not qualify and track the company IT security posture at all.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Some Comments on The Security Practitioners Survey<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Representatives from both the Ponemon Institute and AttackIQ commented on the discoveries in their survey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First, Larry Ponemon\u2014founder and chairman of Ponemon Institute\u2014shared his thoughts. \u201cEnterprise culture is formed at the top. If enterprise leaders are not actively engaged in ensuring a strong cybersecurity posture, it sends the message that cybersecurity is not a mission-critical issue.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe board of directors and C-suite typically come under fire when their organization suffers a data breach or other security incident, and therefore must be involved in enforcing a proactive approach to identifying and remediating security gaps.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, Brett Galloway\u2014CEO of AttackIQ\u2014offered his comments. \u201cData breaches and other security incidents continue to plague enterprises, shining a light on the need for companies to shift to a proactive approach to ensuring a strong security posture.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can read more about the security practitioners survey from <a href=\"https:\/\/attackiq.com\/press-room\/ponemon-study-only-28-percent-enterprises-say-ceo-and-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AttackIQ and Ponemon Institute here<\/a>. Also, you can read our <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/siem-buyers-guide-security-information-and-event-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 SIEM Buyer\u2019s Guide<\/a> here for more on the top vendors and their key capabilities; our <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/security-information-event-management-vendor-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SIEM Vendor Map<\/a> can provide other crucial data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>Widget not in any sidebars<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>63 percent of American security practitioners don\u2019t report to their C-Suite board on a regular basis. In fact, 40 percent say they don\u2019t report at all. Continuous security validation provider AttackIQ, working with the Ponemon Institute, discovered these findings in a survey of 577 IT practitioners. You can read it here.\u00a0\u00a0 Additionally, AttackIQ and Ponemon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[1130,95,112,86,48,144,21,57,1168,22],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>40 Percent of Security Practitioners Don&#039;t Report to the Board<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"63 percent of American security practitioners don\u2019t report to their C-Suite board on a regular basis. 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