{"id":49338,"date":"2022-11-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:uuid:20427bb6-5674-2c30-b8df-e2c7d1e9fd04"},"modified":"2022-11-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T00:00:00","slug":"global-cyber-risk-at-elevated-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/global-cyber-risk-at-elevated-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Cyber Risk at Elevated Level"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Global and Regional CRI<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The current global cyber risk index is at -0.15<\/b>, which is considered an elevated risk level. This is a slight increase in risk from the second half of 2021, when it was -0.04.  Organizations in North America and Asia-Pacific saw an increase in their cyber risk from that period while Europe and Latin\/South America\u2019s risk decreased in comparison.<\/p>\n

Digging into each of the four regions, North America\u2019s CRI was the most elevated of the regions at -0.33. The region\u2019s CPI worsened slightly from 5.35 to 5.30 (a lower CPI number means higher risk) and their CTI dropped from 5.36 to 5.63 (a higher CTI means higher risk).<\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s overall CRI improved very slightly from -0.15 to -0.12. Preparedness decreased, but their threat index improved further, leading to a better CRI. <\/p>\n

Asia\/Pacific saw their cyber risk move from moderate to elevated due to a significant decrease from the second half (+0.20 to -0.11).  Their lower CRI was mainly due to a much higher threat risk: moving from 5.15 to 5.44. <\/p>\n

Latin\/South America\u2019s risk improved slightly, decreasing from -0.20 to -0.03. This was mostly due to a marked improvement in their CPI (4.94 to 5.27) than CTI (5.14 to 5.30). <\/p>\n

Essentially, this means that businesses in North America were the least prepared globally to effectively stop or respond to cyber threats in the first half of 2022. Since businesses across all four regions seem to face equal levels of risk (elevated cyber risk indices), this means they all need to improve in the future to ensure they can defend against the threats and malicious actors targeting them.<\/p>\n

The Details of the 1H\u20192022 CRI<\/span><\/p>\n

This infographic shares many of the details found in the latest CRI survey.  See the infographic here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s investigate some of the responses to risks in people, processes and technology we found.<\/p>\n

Based on the results, these are the areas of preparedness that most need work to address the areas of highest risk, meaning these questions were answered with the lowest scores (highest risk):<\/p>\n

People:<\/b><\/p>\n