Security News > 2020 > May > Only 36% of critical infrastructures have a high level of cyber resilience

The research investigated the cyber resilience of organizations operating in the energy, finance, health, telecommunications, transport and water industries, located in the world's five largest economies: UK, US, Germany, France and Japan.

Of the 370 companies surveyed, only 36 percent had achieved a high level of cyber resilience.

To benchmark the cyber resilience of these critical infrastructures, the researchers assessed a number of criteria.

They place greater importance on the ability to respond to cyber incidents and mitigate the impact on critical business processes: The ability to prevent cyber incidents is of secondary importance to highly-resilient organizations as they recognize attacks are inevitable.

"Cyberattacks are inevitable so being able to firstly withstand them and then recover from them is vital. Nowhere is this more important than in the critical infrastructure industries where any loss or reduction in service could be devastating both socially and economically, so it's a concern than only just over a third of providers are what we consider to be highly-resilient," said Dirk Schrader, cyber resilience architect at Greenbone Networks.

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