Beyond Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Digital Business

Executive Summary

The theft of information assets and the intentional disruption of online processes are among the most important business risks facing major institutions. If companies, governments, and other organizations continue to address this issue in the way that they have, the risk of cyber-attacks could slow the pace of technology innovation with as much as $3 trillion in lost economic value in 2020.

Companies, with the support of a broader ecosystem, must instead build cybersecurity into their business and information technology (IT) processes in order to achieve digital resilience.

At its heart, this book addresses three questions:

1. What is the risk of cyber-attacks, and how could their impact evolve over the next few years?
2. How can companies achieve digital resilience and protect themselves from attacks while still creating value from technology investments and innovation?
3. What practical steps should business and public-sector leaders be taking to facilitate this progress toward digital resilience?

$3 TRILLION AT RISK

Companies are losing ground to cyber-attackers. Nearly 80 percent of technology executives said that they cannot keep up with attackers’ increasing sophistication and many said they are seeing attack strategies filter down from nation-states to a wide range of criminals and hacktivists, who have much more destructive ambitions.

Although companies are spending tens, and sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars protecting themselves, they lack the ...