Security News > 2020 > January > C-suite not prepared for NotPetya and other extinction-level cyberattacks
Many executives either don't know what their company's cyber defense is, lack budget, or spend too much time analyzing rather than taking action.
In a new poll of 2,800 cyber security practitioners and C-suite executives, 65% cite destructive cyber attacks like NotPetya as a top cyber security concern.
"Increased executive awareness", "Improved cyber incident response", and "An isolated recovery environment", rounded out the remaining responses.
Weak cyber hygiene: Missing patches, misconfigurations of systems, partially deployed security tools, and poor asset discovery and tracking.
On Dec. 4, 2019, a Deloitte Dbriefs webcast, titled "Cyber recovery: Surviving a digital extinction-level event," polled more than 2,800 C-suite and other executives about cybersecurity and cyber recovery protocol.