According to a new report from Fastly, it takes 7.34 months on average to fully recover from an cyber incident, 25% longer than the 5.85 months respondents predicted.
For organizations planning to decrease their cybersecurity investment, recovery times are expected to be 8.14 months with these firms actually taking 10.88 months on average to recover – a 34% gap between perception and reality.
Respondents consider “recovery” to include:
- 43% – Implementing stronger security measures
- 41% – Offering additional training to employees
- 38% – Restoring from backups
- 34% – Stakeholder communication
- 25% – Forensic analysis
Also notable, as a result of the CrowdStrike outage:
- 86% said they’d changed their patch testing or deployment processes
- 29% claimed they would consider changing security vendors following high-profile incidents or software quality problems
- 48% said they are rethinking how they use their existing cybersecurity tools
The cloud services provider polled 1800 IT cybersecurity decision makers in organizations across the Americas, Europe, APAC and Japan to compile its Global Security Research Report.
Emily Phelps, Director, Cyware had this to say:
“The disparity between perceived and actual recovery times after a cyber incident highlights a critical challenge: organizations often underestimate the complexity and duration of the recovery process. True resilience requires more than reactive measures—it demands a comprehensive, integrated approach to cybersecurity that addresses prevention, detection, and response holistically. Recovery isn’t just about restoring operations; it’s about fortifying defenses, enhancing processes, and fostering collaboration across teams and stakeholders.”
Ideally, you should never get pwned. But in the event that you do, you need a plan. You then need to test that plan. Then refine that plan and test it again. Combined with a robust defence, you may be in a much better place.
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Cyber event recovery 25% longer than companies predict: Fastly
According to a new report from Fastly, it takes 7.34 months on average to fully recover from an cyber incident, 25% longer than the 5.85 months respondents predicted.
For organizations planning to decrease their cybersecurity investment, recovery times are expected to be 8.14 months with these firms actually taking 10.88 months on average to recover – a 34% gap between perception and reality.
Respondents consider “recovery” to include:
Also notable, as a result of the CrowdStrike outage:
The cloud services provider polled 1800 IT cybersecurity decision makers in organizations across the Americas, Europe, APAC and Japan to compile its Global Security Research Report.
Emily Phelps, Director, Cyware had this to say:
“The disparity between perceived and actual recovery times after a cyber incident highlights a critical challenge: organizations often underestimate the complexity and duration of the recovery process. True resilience requires more than reactive measures—it demands a comprehensive, integrated approach to cybersecurity that addresses prevention, detection, and response holistically. Recovery isn’t just about restoring operations; it’s about fortifying defenses, enhancing processes, and fostering collaboration across teams and stakeholders.”
Ideally, you should never get pwned. But in the event that you do, you need a plan. You then need to test that plan. Then refine that plan and test it again. Combined with a robust defence, you may be in a much better place.
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