PRESS RELEASE
LONDON, Sept. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Prior to now 12 months, over half of organisations had been impacted by cyber threats. Bigger corporations specifically had been more likely to return below assault.
The severity of those incidents is instantly contributing to job losses. Of 500 UK IT, resilience and cyber safety professionals surveyed, 37% reported that cyber-attacks resulted in dismissals.
Final 12 months, Databarracks’ Information Well being Examine (DHC) discovered that cyber-attacks are organisation’s main reason for downtime and knowledge loss. In 2024, that’s nonetheless the case.
Information misplaced to cyber incidents varies significantly by firm measurement, with bigger companies 5 instances 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 reason for downtime and knowledge loss. The true information is that cyber is now having a major impression on staff.
“Over a 3rd of these surveyed within the DHC report job losses because of cyber-attacks. These could possibly be IT or Safety employees 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 coated by insurance coverage. These outcomes present that assaults have a private impression.
“At the moment, IT groups are confronted with considerably extra threat and threats to the continuity of their organisations, which may have a profound impression on their wellbeing. However the identical may be mentioned for workers throughout a enterprise.
“Workers 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 employees, and so it’s essential that they’re stored well-trained and appropriately knowledgeable within the occasion of an incident.”
Learn the highlights from the Information Well being Examine 2024: https://datahealthcheck.databarracks.com/2024/
Obtain the total DHC report: https://www.databarracks.com/assets/data-health-check-2024