In ISACA’s State of Cybersecurity 2019 research released this month, a combined 75 percent of security professionals responding to the survey assert that most enterprises underreport cybercrime, including 50 percent who believe that organizations underreport cybercrime even when legally required to report it.
There is a well-known saying that the first step to solving a problem is acknowledging that there is a problem, but these numbers suggest that enterprises still would prefer to sweep cyber incidents under the rug than to face the often-unpleasant realities of today’s threat landscape.
