Cybersecurity: Duck and Cover or Stand Up and Do Business?

CEOWORLD | October 1, 2018

By Ray Rothrock, RedSeal CEO

Cybersecurity isn’t working today.  In 2016, the Ponemon Institute reported that each of the 383 companies it surveyed had a “26 percent probability of a material data breach involving ten thousand lost or stolen records” within the “next twenty-four months.” Take this beyond two years—say to the projected life of your business—and you must accept the certainty of data breach. If cybersecurity were working, that certainty would not exist.

What has gone wrong with cybersecurity?

The exponential development of digital technology has left it in the cyber dust.