Enterprises struggle with serious gaps in cyber response plans

A new survey of 1,000 businesses across the UK, UK, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region reveals a worrying disconnect between organizations' perceived readiness and actual performance in cyber crisis response.

The study for Semperis, with research from Censuswide, finds 90 percent of enterprises surveyed struggle with serious blockers to effective cyber response. Top issues include cross-team communication gaps (48 percent), out-of-date response plans (45 percent) and unclear roles and responsibilities (41 percent).

Globally 96 percent of companies say they have a cyber crisis response plan and 90 percent have activated their enterprise crisis response plan at least once in the past year -- some more than 25 times.

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