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This Week’s Big News: Cybersecurity Challenges and Opportunities in 2018!

As mentioned below, the good folks at EY have published their latest Global Information Security Study. You can read the blog post for details, but here are a few findings you might find disturbing – and uncomfortably familiar.

  • “75% of respondents rate the maturity of their vulnerability identification as very low to moderate.”
  • “38% have no identity and access program or have not formally agreed such a program.”
  • “35% describe their data protection policies as ad-hoc or non-existent.”
  • “12% have no breach detection program in place.” Yet the same percentage of respondents “feel it is very likely they would detect a sophisticated cyber attack.”
  • “89% say their cybersecurity function does not fully meet their organization’s needs.”
  • “Only 4% of organizations are confident that they have fully considered the information security implications of their current strategy, and that their risk landscape incorporates and monitors relevant cyber threats, vulnerabilities and risks.”

So how does your organization compare? Whatever your cybersecurity status, experts at Ivanti and elsewhere agree. An intensified focus on basics, such as patch, application, and privilege management, can do much to make your enterprise more secure and resistant to threats.

Read more about the EY survey in our Dec. 28, 2017 Threat Thursday Update. Grab a complimentary copy of the complete EY survey to peruse and share with your colleagues and bosses. Review our security blog posts for more specific guidance on how to improve cybersecurity at your enterprise. Then, check out how our solutions can help you with patch management for your servers and applications, control of your users’ applications and privileges, and your abilities to resist and recover from malware attacks. Resolve to make 2018 the year you and Ivanti get your enterprise closer to truly effective defense in depth, and to The Power of Unified IT™.

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Coming Up This Week

No major events on the calendar for this week, but several cool webinars are coming next week, including our monthly take on Patch Tuesday. Details in next week’s ICYMI Update. Meanwhile, check the Ivanti Events Calendar for more details and updates, and make sure to share with your colleagues.