Executives Feel Like Cyber-Security is Just an IT Problem

Cyber-security is a big issue, with people and companies finding out the hard way that their security is exposed when it turns up online for sale or they receive phone calls advertising features with details they never hand out. With big companies like TalkTalk and even the government being victims of hacks, people are acting more and more with security at their mind front. This may change though soon as a survey of executives found they felt like cyber-security is just an “IT problem”.

The survey questioned 1,530 C-level executives, that is anyone who’s job title contains chief or another word beginning with c in it. This illusion of responsibility, one which often ends up landing with executives, comes as companies spent 25% more on information security in 2015 compared to 2014.

The survey was conducted on companies that were deemed “vulnerable” resulted in 91 percent of the executives saying that they couldn’t interpret a cybersecurity report, with 40 percent of those responding admitting that they didn’t even feel responsible for cyber-security.

These figures are certainly more than a little scary, with company executives feeling like they aren’t responsible on every level for protecting your information or even being aware of the threats and dangers that they encounter. In a day and age where you are more than likely to be attacked via the internet and your computer systems than on a street, it is the responsibility of everyone, especially those in power, to make sure that they uphold their legal responsibilities, even if that comes at a weeks crash course in cyber-security.