CISOs, IT Lack Confidence In Executives' Cyber-Defense Knowledge
CSO Online, Monday, June 5,2023
Cybercriminals target senior executives, but IT security professionals say these executives are unprepared to defend their devices, software, and home network.
IT security teams lack confidence in their executives' ability to prevent attacks on their personal hardware, systems, and network. This is according to a study sponsored by BlackCloak, a provider of digital privacy protection for high-profile executives, for which Ponemon Institute surveyed 553 US IT and IT security practitioners.
Asked to rate from 1 to 10 how confident they were in CEOs and executives' abilities to know how to recognize a phishing email, only 28% of respondents were confident. A similar percentage (26%) applying to security teams' trust in high-level executives to securely set up their home network and protect their personal computers from viruses.