Indian leaders say upskilling key cybersecurity challenge: Microsoft

per cent) of leaders in India stated that they plan to speed up deployment of Zero Trust capabilities to reduce risk exposure," the findings showed.

Globally, 90 per cent of businesses have been impacted by phishing attacks with 28 per cent admitted to being successfully phished.

Notably successful phishing attacks were reported in significantly higher numbers from organizations that described their resources as mostly on-premise (36 per cent) as opposed to being more cloud-based.

In response to Covid-19, more than 80 per cent of companies added security jobs.

While 58 per cent of companies reported an increase in security budgets globally, 65 per cent reported an increase in compliance budgets.

"The shift to remote work is fundamentally changing security architecture," said the survey.

 

"While 51 per cent of business leaders are speeding up deployment of Zero Trust capabilities, 94 per cent of companies report that they are in the process of deploying new Zero Trust capabilities," it added.

Among the key insights are data showing that an alarming number of businesses are still impacted by phishing scams, security budgets, and hiring increased in response to Covid-19, "and cloud-based technologies and architectures like Zero Trust are significant areas of investment moving forward," said Andrew Conway General Manager, Microsoft Security.

( With inputs from IANS )