This is Bitdefender’s fourth annual Cybersecurity Assessment Report, based on independent research among 1,200 IT and cybersecurity professionals at multiple levels: management, from mid-level managers up to executive leadership, and security practitioners on the front line of cyber defense.
Research participants are located across multiple continents and six countries: France, Germany, Italy, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The research reveals a startling gap between how leaders of organizations feel about their security posture, and what the people doing the work think about it. The gap between the two perspectives is one of the report’s key findings. It turns out that executive leadership and managers are consistently more optimistic than the practitioners who implement their strategies.
