Nearly a quarter (22%) of IT leaders believe cybersecurity is an essential foundation of their digital transformation, according to a new Telstra survey.
To better understand its strategic challenges, the telecommunications giant surveyed 300 UK IT and security decision makers from organizations with 500-5000 employees.
Security vendors have long argued that digital transformation projects launched without security-by-design principles in mind are built on sand.
The research seems to reveal that this message is filtering for IT departments.
Security surpassed business process (17%), employee commitment (16%), leadership buy-in (14%), and external investment and funding (13%) as the most important driver of business transformation. rice field.
More than two-fifths (41%) of respondents see security as an enabler of organizational innovation.
But security technology alone is not enough to effectively manage cyber risk, he said, people and culture are also important.
Encouragingly, 83% of respondents say they have an “open security culture.” That is, “a culture that emphasizes open dialogue and collaboration within flat team structures, avoids a culture of blame, and encourages a transparent incident reporting process.”
Many also said their security culture was “very proactive” (70%), “cooperative” (69%), “transparent” (68%) and “inclusive” (67%). rice field.
About half of those surveyed had experienced a data breach in the past. The most common characteristic used to describe the culture of those who did not was “cooperative”.
While human error was cited as the primary factor impacting cyber resilience, IT leaders are more likely to avoid cyber incidents during major sporting events (36%), holidays (35%) and even sunny days (31%). I pointed out that it can cause security revocation.
“Most decision makers recognize the importance of security to enabling innovation. Therefore, as organizations continue their digital transformation efforts, it is imperative that security is embedded in their DNA.” said Rob Robinson, Head of Telstra Purple EMEA.
“By actively creating a people-focused, collaborative, proactive, transparent, and inclusive culture, organizations can empower employees to create value to the organization through flexible, adaptable, and innovative business transformation. can be made available.”
