Why U.S. Firms Are Less Cyber-Secure Than They Think

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https://www.eweek.com/security/why-u.s.-firms-are-less-cyber-secure-than-they-think

By Chris Preimesberger
eWEEK
January 31, 2019

The U.S. certainly is a divided nation around many issues right now, but 
concern about cybersecurity as a threat to a majority of U.S. enterprises 
isn’t one of them. Everybody agrees on that one.

A majority of participants in a recent survey enabled by FICO understand 
and recognize the risk of data breaches and expect them to increase, but 
they also believe they are better prepared than their competitors. FICO, 
originally Fair, Isaac &Co., is a data analytics company based in San 
Jose, Calif. focused on credit-scoring services.

However, in a world in which smart companies such as Facebook, Yahoo and 
Target can fall victim to hackers, how prepared can they be? Five hundred 
senior executives, most of them IT managers, participated in the research, 
which was conducted by Ovum.

The following eWEEK Data Points article features highlights of the 
research.

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