Security News > 2023 > June > Cybersecurity culture improves despite the dark clouds of the past year

This apparent success of security teams is particularly interesting given that CISOs on average rated their organization's overall security posture lower than they did over the previous year.

80% of respondents said they believed that their organization's security culture has improved to some degree in the last year.

Digging into the cultural improvements in more detail, proactive 'report it' no-blame policies, simulated phishing and tailored training remain as the other key drivers of security culture.

They did score lower than the previous year, perhaps showing reduced impact due to them becoming more of a well-established part of security culture.

Advisory Board Member, Jessica Barker, commented, "Our findings this year acknowledge the crucial role that leadership endorsement plays in security culture. Cybersecurity has been rising up on the corporate agenda for a few years now, but this stronger alignment between security teams and senior leadership is very encouraging progress. Without tone from the top, building a healthy security culture will always be more challenging."

Compared to the year before, 67% of CISOs cited stronger alignment with the executive team and 54% with the board.

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