UK Public Sector Information Vulnerable to Cyberattack Due To Awareness Gap Between IT Professionals

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UK Public Sector Information Vulnerable to Cyberattack Due To Awareness Gap Between IT Professionals
New Sophos Study Reveals Security Misperceptions
November 19, 2019
https://www.sophos.com/de-de/press-...o-awareness-gap-between-it-professionals.aspx

Some of these gaps have a direct impact on IT security.
Among the most critical differences, a worrying 55 percent of public sector IT leaders believe their organization’s digital data is less valuable than that of the private sector, despite the fact that they handle highly sensitive, confidential, personal, and government information.

The survey questioned staff ranging from the most senior C-suite to frontline IT teams in the NHS, education and government sectors.

“The kind of data held by public sector organizations could cause extensive harm if exposed to cyberattackers. Sensitive data for up to 66 million UK citizens could become available to the highest bidder on the dark web or among other criminal groups [...] and could have catastrophic consequences for national security if leaked.”
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Other differences revealed in the study include:

Three quarters (76 percent) of senior IT leaders said their organization had been affected by a ransomware incident over the past year – while only 16 percent of IT practitioners were aware of such an incident

Many IT leaders (45 percent) said that there had been a large increase in IT security incidents and a similar number (38 percent) said the same about actual breaches – compared to a far lower four and eight percent, respectively, among IT practitioners

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