Get prepared to meet cyberthreats

Let the Cybersecurity Readiness Index help secure your world

Sponsored Post October is cybersecurity awareness month, an initiative declared by the US President and Congress to encourage government and industry organizations around the world to pool their resources in tackling cyber threats.

This, the 21 consecutive event, sports an overarching theme of Secure Our World which comes with a range of free advice and other resources to help businesses and consumers alike stay safe online. More expert guidance is also available in the 2024 Cisco Cybersecurity Readiness Index report, which provides an overview of the current global cybersecurity landscape and offers an assessment of how well prepared (or not) organizations are to deal with it.

Based on a survey of over 8,000 business and cybersecurity leaders spanning 30 global markets it rates readiness to meet those threats according to five criteria – Identify Intelligence; Network Resilience; Machine Trustworthiness; Cloud Reinforcement; and Artificial Intelligence Fortification.

Yet its conclusions suggest that very few respondents (just 3 percent) worked for organizations which could be said to have 'Mature' cybersecurity defenses, with the vast majority falling into either the 'Formative' (60 percent), or 'Beginner' (11 percent) categories. There's no indication those organizations are underestimating the scale of the challenges they face – almost three quarters (73 percent) believe some form of cybersecurity incident will disrupt their business in the next 12-24 months.

That's a sobering thought for any company striving to protect sensitive data and mission-critical applications, systems and services from the unwanted attention of hackers and cyber criminals. Cisco has used the insight gained from the Cybersecurity Readiness Index to build solutions which can help, though.

You can protect your network using the Cisco Secure Firewall, for example, and automate threat remediation using the AI-enabled Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solution. And if you're concerned that third party cloud service providers don't do enough to safeguard your data and applications when they're hosted on off-premises infrastructure, there's also the Multicloud Defense platform to help you maintain tighter controls.

You can see an overview of the 2024 Cisco Cybersecurity Readiness Index here, or just go right ahead and download the full report from this link.

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