Today we released the results of new research: What Keeps You up at Night – the 2020 Africa Report. The report looks at over 400 organizations across 18 African nations and reveals the security weaknesses and concerns within those organizations.
In this report, with Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa serving as data hubs, we’re covering which issues are keeping organisations in African nations “up at night”; that is, which aspects of security—from threats, security initiatives, risks and organisational constraints—were they most concerned about? We are looking at the state of security from six perspectives:
Cyber Threats
Security Initiatives
Compliance Security
User-Related Issues
Resource Issues
Executive-Level Concerns
On average, 84 percent of African organizations had some degree of concern around security issues that we raised.
The largest concern is employees making errors. Negligent users and remote workers are top concerns for African organisations, with 96% worried to some degree. Ransomware tops the list of attack types, with 96% of African organisations expressing some degree of concern.
Organizations must start with establishing a security culture, and in order to combat the escalation of social engineering, they have to ensure users are trained and tested.
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