The double-blind survey, conducted by an independent research partner, covers many industries including retail, transport, manufacturing, financial services, as well as government and higher education. Participants are full-time employees working in mid-market (250-999 employees), enterprise (1,000-9,999), and large enterprise (10,000+) organizations.
Respondents fill a variety of roles including Chief Information Security Officers (CISO), Chief Information Officers (CIOs), and other senior titles. They are knowledgeable about security policies and procedures and involved in setting security strategy. A majority hold titles of CISO, Director/Manager of IT and/or CTO, and 99% of survey respondents have a team in their organization dedicated to cybersecurity.
Respondents come from all continents and 18 countries including the USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, and China (Figure 13.)
The following criteria were used to qualify respondents:
Throughout the past decade, Cisco has published a wealth of definitive security and threat intelligence information for security professionals interested in the state of global cybersecurity. These comprehensive reports provided detailed accounts of threat landscapes and their organizational implications, as well as best practices to defend against the adverse impacts of data breaches.
In our new approach to our thought leadership, Cisco Security is publishing a series of research-based, data-driven publications under the banner, Cisco Cybersecurity Series. We’ve expanded the number of titles to include different reports for security professionals with different interests. Calling on the depth and breadth of expertise in threat researchers and innovators in the security industry, the collection of reports in the 2019 series include the Data Privacy Benchmark Study, the Threat Report and the CISO Benchmark Study, with others to come throughout the year.
For more information, and to access all the reports and archived copies, visit www.cisco.com/go/securityreports.
