PRESS RELEASE
LONDON, Sept. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Previously 12 months, over half of organisations have been impacted by cyber threats. Bigger corporations particularly have been more likely to come back beneath assault.
The severity of those incidents is straight contributing to job losses. Of 500 UK IT, resilience and cyber safety professionals surveyed, 37% reported that cyber-attacks resulted in dismissals.
Final yr, Databarracks’ Information Well being Test (DHC) discovered that cyber-attacks are organisation’s main explanation for downtime and knowledge loss. In 2024, that’s nonetheless the case.
Information misplaced to cyber incidents varies enormously by firm measurement, with bigger companies 5 occasions extra more likely to be impacted.
Chris Butler, Resilience Director at Databarracks, commented:
“It ought to come as little shock that cyber stays organisations’ main explanation for downtime and knowledge loss. The true information is that cyber is now having a major affect on workers.
“Over a 3rd of these surveyed within the DHC report job losses because of cyber-attacks. These may very well be IT or Safety workers being dismissed in direct response to the breach, or wider layoffs from enterprise disruption.
“Cyber-attacks on companies are sometimes seen as victimless crimes as a result of losses are lined by insurance coverage. These outcomes present that assaults have a private affect.
“Right this moment, IT groups are confronted with considerably extra threat and threats to the continuity of their organisations, which might have a profound affect on their wellbeing. However the identical could be mentioned for workers throughout a enterprise.
“Employees could also be unsure about what an assault means for the way forward for their firm, and by extension their very own job safety. Your first line of defence is your workers, and so it’s essential that they’re saved well-trained and appropriately knowledgeable within the occasion of an incident.”
Learn the highlights from the Information Well being Test 2024: https://datahealthcheck.databarracks.com/2024/
Obtain the complete DHC report: https://www.databarracks.com/assets/data-health-check-2024