For the 2018 version of the survey, the international IT governance association polled more than 2,300 cybersecurity professionals worldwide about the emerging threat landscape
Here are four survey insights:
1. Half of the cybersecurity leaders agreed they had seen an increase in cyberattack volumes compared to last year.
2. Respondents have seen a dip in ransomware attacks. Forty-five percent of cybersecurity professionals said their organization had experienced a ransomware attack in this year’s survey, compared to 62 percent last year — a 17-point drop.
3. ISACA attributed the drop in ransomware attacks to increased awareness and preparedness after international incidents like WannaCry, a worldwide ransomware attack that infected 200,000-plus computers in more than 150 countries in May 2017. Eighty-two percent of respondents said that their organizations now have ransomware strategies in place.
4. The three most common attack vectors — phishing, malware and social engineering — remained the same in 2018 and 2017.
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