Percentages, time limits and cyber enablers

Increasingly, at least in some geographies  -it would be nice to be able to say that yours and mine are among them-  cybersecurity is entering the Board of Directors’ agenda. A recent study by NYSE raised to 80 the percentage of organizations that have discussed this problem at BoD-level at least once. 10% of them after suffering an incident! With such cyber incidents grabbing more and more headlines  -some people already consider 2015 as the year of cybercrime-  it is reasonable to think that that figure will increase. Heather Pemberton Levy, former Vice President at Gartner, points in this direction when she states that “by 2020, [cyber]security will no longer be a technology problem, it will be a business one”. Therefore, my dear directors, you still have a time limit of five years, at most, to catch up on Cybersecurity! Naturally, always that reality did not accelerate your plans, as we recommend. (Remember the 10% I have just quoted).

Within the Industry sector in particular, motivations for cyberattacks are many, their effects vary (and are dangerous) and enablers are, even, larger: the vast amount of data that the Internet provides gives a level of knowledge on individuals and their companies that nobody thought of before (specially, the affected parties); the number of industrial control devices connected to the Internet or to corporate networks has tripled in the last year; and, finally, attack vectors, old and new, are still out there (and have been for a while), despite vendors’ efforts to face them.

"What more could you ask for?", someone might say.

And what better topic for discussion than this!, we say. A discussion that CCI will be promoting among the membership of "The CCI Ecosystem" present at the “4^th International Congress on Industrial Cybersecurity” to be held this week in Buenos Aires (Argentina).

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