Kyndryl has released findings from its global ‘Cyber Gauge 2024: Navigating the complex cybersecurity landscape’ survey, conducted with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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The G7 Cyber Expert Group has released a public statement highlighting the potential cybersecurity risks associated with developments in quantum computing and recommending steps for financial authorities and institutions to take to address those risks.
The increasing sophistication of cyberattacks has meant that the data recovery rate for businesses hit by ransomware has dropped from 87.4% in 2021 to just 66.3% this year.
ISO has published ISO 22336:2024, ‘Security and resilience — Organizational resilience — Guidelines for resilience policy and strategy’.
The water crisis puts at risk more than half of the world’s food production by 2050. It also threatens an 8% loss of GDP in countries around the world on average by 2050, with as much as a 15% loss in lower-income countries, and even larger economic consequences beyond.
According to the Kaspersky report ‘Managing geographically distributed businesses: challenges and solutions’, almost 30% of respondents from industrial companies stated that they regularly experienced network problems.
AXA has published the eleventh edition of its Future Risks Report. This year, more than 23,000 respondents from a double panel of experts and the general population in over 50 countries (Europe, America, Asia-Pacific) expressed their perception of risk.
Leadership and stewardship are at a premium in these turbulent and uncertain times; they help embed resilience. They come particularly to the fore in a crisis or disruption, but success is sown in the months and years before.
As the world continues to face wide-ranging challenges, the mental health of employees is a pressing concern.
At the recent 2024 Counter Ransomware Initiative Summit 39 countries alongside international cyber insurance bodies backed new guidance which aims to support organizations experiencing ransomware attacks and to boost global resilience.