Cyberspace threats are real and growing. Worldwide cybersecurity trends and implications support these assertions: 97% of organizations analyzed in 63 countries have experienced a cyber breach; 98% of applications tested across 15 countries were vulnerable; in 2014, threat groups were present on a victim’s network a median of 205 days before detection; $7.7M was the mean annualized cost of cyber crime across 252 global, benchmarked organizations in 2015; and 60% of enterprises globally spend more time and money on reactive measures versus proactive risk management.[1][2][3][4][5] “Every conflict in the world has a cyber dimension,” testified ADM Michael Rogers, Commander of U.S. Cyber Command and Director of the National Security Agency, before the House Armed Services Committee in March 2015.[6] These facts, and the increasing acknowledgement regarding the importance of cyberspace on operations, place organizational leaders under immense pressure to make sound cybersecurity investment choices. Cybersecurity has truly become a political, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure, physical environment, and time concern for senior leaders.
Cyber Situational Awareness