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Only 65% of Organizations Have Cybersecurity Expert on Payroll, Gartner Finds

Though 95 percent of global chief information officers say they expect cyberthreats to increase in the next three years, only 65 percent of their organizations have a cybersecurity expert on the payroll, a Gartner survey found. Gartner canvassed 3,160 CIOs…

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in 98 countries, finding 35 percent said their organizations deploy some “aspect of digital security,” and another 36 percent are “actively experimenting” or planning to implement a security plan “in the short term,” it said. "In a twisted way, many cybercriminals are digital pioneers, finding ways to leverage big data and web-scale techniques to stage attacks and steal data," said Gartner Tuesday. "CIOs can't protect their organizations from everything, so they need to create a sustainable set of controls that balances their need to protect their business with their need to run it."