92% of business suffered a cyber security breach in the last five years
According to Lloyd’s recently published report on Cyber Risk, 92% of European companies surveyed (with revenues of €250m or more) have all suffered data breaches.
Lloyd’s Chief Executive, Inga Beale, believes the results should serve as a warning that firms may still be too complacent as regards how they are prepared for a cyber risk incident and what the implications of one could be for their business.
“It is clear that too many firms do not believe that the dangers of a breach will severely impact them.” Inga said. “I’m afraid we no longer live in a world where you can prevent breaches taking place, instead it is about how you manage them and what measures you have in place to protect your business and importantly, your customers. As recent events have shown, hard-earned reputations can be lost in a flash if you do not have the correct plans in place.”
Several executive leaders have spoken out in recent months about how Cyber has risen to the be a key boardroom agenda. Drew Del Matto, CFO of leading security vendor Fortinet, recently talked about how if stewardship is really about the protection and oversight of a company’s assets, both tangible and intangible, then “security needs to be a central pillar of that stewardship”.
Key points of the Lloyd’s Cyber Survey
Key points highlighted by the survey by Lloyd’s include:
• 92% of business suffered a cyber security breach in the last five years
• However only 42% are concerned another breach will happen in the future
• Only 13% of businesses believe they could lose customers in the event of a breach
• Although 97% of respondents have heard of the GDPR, only 7% report knowing “a great deal” about it. 57% said they know “little” or “nothing”
• Top internal threats identified as being able to result in a data breach: physical loss of paper or non-electronic devices (42%), an insider intentionally breaching information (42%), human error or unintended disclosure (41%), lost, stolen or discarded equipment (41%)
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