CyberArk Survey: Majority of Enterprises Fear Disruption to Business Critical Applications, Yet Don’t Prioritize Securing Them

According to a new CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR) survey, the majority of organizations (nearly 70 percent) do not prioritize the protection of the applications that their business depend on – such as ERP and CRM systems – any differently than how low-value data, applications or services are secured.

The independent survey was conducted among 1,450 business and IT decision makers, primarily from Western European economies. Respondents indicated that even the slightest downtime affecting business critical applications would be massively disruptive, with 61 percent agreeing that the impact would be severe.

Breaches affecting applications that are the lifeblood of business can result in punitive costs, with a 2018 report estimating the average cost of an attack on an ERP system at $5.5 million USD.1 The threat actors that enterprises face are formidable – organized crime was behind 50 percent of all breaches in 2018, with attacks using established tactics like privileges abuse to achieve their aims.2

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