Factors that could weaken an global org cyber security posture 2018

Factors that could cause a decline in an organization's cyber security posture in the next three years according to senior information technology practitioners worldwide from 2015 to 2018

Characteristic	2015	2018
Lack of suitable technologies	33%	53%
Inability to hire and retain expert staff	45%	53%
Lack of actionable intelligence	44%	38%
Lack of funding	34%	37%
Increase in compliance burden	19%	33%
Increase in complexity and external applications hosting	31%	31%
Inability to minimize employee-related risk	43%	25%
Lack of C-level support	29%	19%
Lack of cybersecurity leadership	22%	11%

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Release date

February 2018

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2017

Number of respondents

1,100 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Special properties

Senior information technology practitioners

Supplementary notes

More than one response was allowed within the survey period.

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This statistic presents the factors that could cause a decline in an organization's cyber security posture in the next three years according to senior information technology practitioners worldwide. According to the survey results, in 2015, 33 percent respondents stated that lack of suitable technologies increases the potential of a decline in their organization's cyber security posture against cyber threats. As such, when asked the same regarding the coming year of 2018, there was a 20 percentage point increase in responses, with 53 percent of respondents reporting that a lack of suitable tech would weaken their company's cyber security.