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title: "Cyber Challenges to Overcome  "
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date: "2024-07-23T13:00:00-04:00"
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description: "For security and IT professionals, the risk landscape is constantly evolving, and they are particularly concerned about external threats and breaches. Organizations realize it’s not a matter of if or when they will be breached, but a matter of what to do when they find out they have already been breached."
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# Cyber Challenges to Overcome  

For security and IT professionals, the risk landscape is constantly evolving, and they are particularly concerned about external threats and breaches. Organizations realize it’s not a matter of if or when they will be breached, but a matter of what to do when they find out they have already been breached.

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We partnered with GigaOm to survey 1,000 IT and security leaders globally for our inaugural [Cyber Recovery Readiness Report](https://www.commvault.com/gc/cyber-recovery-readiness-report) – and we learned a lot about the daunting set of challenges they face.

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Respondents’ top security challenges include increasingly sophisticated hackers and attack types, use of artificial intelligence by cybercriminals, a broader attack surface due to cloud and SaaS, and adopting AI-based technologies across security tooling.

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Our respondents’ adoption of several general security capabilities – identity and access management; intrusion protection, detection, and response; data loss prevention/protection; and security posture management – hovers in the 75% to 80% range, with the current solution in place either satisfactory or in need of improvement. However, looked at generally, 42% of respondents are satisfied with their general cybersecurity, while 38% see a need for improvement to their cybersecurity measures.

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When it comes to cyber recovery, the top challenge named in our survey was the complexity of critical apps and data, cited by 44% of respondents, followed by cost. A significant number of organizations (42%) lack a clear understanding of who is responsible for driving cyber resilience and recovery strategies and execution.

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Fortunately for those organizations that lack clear ownership for cyber recovery strategies – and for the 38% whose cybersecurity measures need improvement – the full Cyber Recovery Readiness Report is available now. It’s full of actionable insights that will leave you better prepared to withstand and recover from a breach, including the five maturity markers we found in cyber resilient organizations. Download it [here](https://www.commvault.com/gc/cyber-recovery-readiness-report).