Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2018)
Reporting Period: 2018
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Cybersecurity
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Increasingly difficult cybersecurity landscape due to malware sophistication, new IT initiatives (cloud, digital transformation, IoT), targeted attacks, increased network traffic and devices, difficulty balancing security with application/network performance, and skills shortage.
- Inadequate security staff levels and skills, particularly at the intersection of networking and security.
Mitigation Strategies
- Increased cybersecurity budgets in network security, cloud security, and application security.
- Increased focus on security testing as part of IT projects from their genesis and on a continuous basis.
- CISOs becoming more involved in business planning and aligning security with business initiatives and processes.
- Utilizing third-party service providers to bridge skills and staffing gaps.