ISACA study examines how well boardrooms are safeguarding digital assets.

More than 90 percent of senior business leaders agree that strong technology governance contributes to improved business outcomes and increased agility, according to ISACA’s latest research, “Better Tech Governance Is Better for Business.” Despite recognizing the link between governance and outcomes, a governance gap still exists, with 69 percent reporting that their leadership and board of director teams need to establish a clearer link between business and IT goals.

The global findings were released at CSX 2017 North America, a Cybersecurity Nexus (CSX) conference held in Washington D.C. The data delves into corporate governance of all things digital, increased responsibilities and funding priorities as well as asking if boardrooms are doing all they can to plan, train, fund and safeguard their organization’s digital assets.

“The boardroom must become hyper-vigilant in ensuring a tight linkage between business goals and IT goals, fully leveraging business technology to improve business outcomes while diligently safeguarding the organization’s digital assets,” said Matt Loeb, CEO of ISACA. “The message from our research is clear: there is much work to do in information and technology governance. Committing to a boardroom with technology savvy and experience strongly represented provides the needed foundation for organizations to effectively and securely innovate through technology.”

Research Highlights – Cyber Security

Not all executive teams and boards walk the talk in matters of digital security. Data shows:

  • Only 55 percent say their organization’s leadership team and board are “doing everything they can” to safeguard their organization’s digital assets and data.
  • 21 percent don’t think their leadership team and board are “doing everything they can” to safeguard their organization’s digital assets and data, and 23 percent neither agree/disagree or don’t know.

As a part of overall governance, cyber security policies and defenses were cited as the number one corporate governance technological challenge and opportunity faced by senior leadership teams globally. Yet:

  • Only 21 percent of senior leadership and boards are briefed on risk topics at every senior leadership meeting.
  • Only one-third of organizations assess risk related to technology use on a monthly or more frequent basis.

Many leadership teams are prioritizing and increasing funding for cyber security and risk management programs:

  • Almost half (48 percent) of leadership teams will prioritize funding expansion in cyber defense improvements, beating the number that intend to significantly expand funding for digital transformation (33 percent) and cloud (27 percent).
  • Leadership teams also intend to fund increases in spending for security consultants (27 percent), upgrades to network perimeter defenses (25 percent), and cyber insurance (17 percent).
  • Well over half (64 percent) of organizations have already increased spending on risk management in the past year versus last year, and 33 percent intend to increase spending in enterprise risk management programs over the next 12 months.

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