Cybersecurity can be a difficult investment to quantify. In a world where breaches have become near ubiquitous, how much security is enough? Unfortunately, for many mid-sized firms, the default setting is to do just enough to get by, investing ad hoc to tackle new threats when they appear. One-in-three business decision makers across Europe and APAC told NTT Security last year that they would rather pay a hacker’s ransom than invest in better cybersecurity — despite the size of the ransomware threat.
Organizations must ditch this reactive, short-term approach to cybersecurity in favor of a more considered proactive risk-based strategy — that’s the way to drive long-term growth as we head through 2019.
