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A Breach Can Teach

The experience of a breach has significant impact on how an organization approaches resilience.


Unfortunately, breaches are far too common, affecting companies of all sizes across all industries. Like any dramatic experience, the experience of fighting through a breach reshapes how an organization behaves and prioritizes its actions. These were among the findings in our inaugural Cyber Recovery Readiness Report, a joint effort of Commvault and GigaOm.  

Nous avons interrogé 1 000 responsables de la cybersécurité et des technologies de l’information issus de différents pays à travers le monde afin de mieux cerner l’état mondial de la Readiness à la reprise après incident cybernétique et de comprendre clairement comment les organisations parviennent à rester résilientes face au chaos et aux dégâts causés par les violations de données.

Our survey confirmed the prevalence of breaches, with 83% of our respondents reporting a material security breach: over 50% of these within the past year and more than 75% in the last 18 months. With breaches costing up to $12 million per day1, the ability to recover quickly is paramount.  

One significant finding across the data set is that there are many lessons to be learned from being breached. Organizations gain experience that changes their outlook, prioritization, and often, their maturity. As an example, organizations that experienced a breach are nearly 2.5 times more likely to rank understanding data risk profile, data classifications, and relative level of risk as a top priority for their cyber recovery strategy, compared to organizations that have not been breached. 

Overall, organizations that haven’t been breached have a narrower focus, citing the need to have critical data fully backed up and recoverable as a top three choice nearly 60% of the time. Organizations that have been breached place a premium on a wider set of practices, led by understanding their data risk profile and classifications.   

This tells us that once an organization has undergone a breach and understands the implications of what it takes to respond, its priorities shift. Those organizations have learned that there are key areas to incorporate that may be less obvious to those that haven’t been breached such as: communication with stakeholders, working with vendors, clear ownership, and division of responsibilities.  Those that haven’t been breached are primarily focused on speed alone. 

Breached organizations are also less satisfied with the status of their early warning tools compared to those that did not report a breach, suggesting a level of complacency in the unbreached group. 

Overall, those that have been breached prepare more comprehensively – they are more likely to have plans, and the plans they do have, they test more frequently. And in response to a breach, they equally prioritize more capabilities and activities vs. trying to do a few things well. 

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1SolarWinds : Équipe Pingdom, « Coût moyen d’une panne par secteur d’activité », 9 janvier 2023.

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