Are you ready for a proactive cybersecurity strategy?
With an ever-expanding digital attack surface and vulnerabilities from hybrid work, cloud services and infrastructure, and supply chains, organizations need to ensure that they understand their digital perimeter and protect themselves in that environment. When you look at your vulnerabilities and risks, you need to understand which exposures are business-critical and must be handled as priorities, as well as the key actions required to improve the security situation and reduce your cyber risk.
How mature is your organization in dealing with modern cyberthreats? Take our short self-assessment to find out.
The assessment will yield customized results and recommendations based on your responses and should take no more than 2 minutes to complete.
For each statement below, please select the option that best describes your organization’s current state.
Strategy
For each statement below, please select the option that best describes your organization’s current practices.
People
For each statement below, please select the option that best describes your organization’s current practices.
Process
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Technology
Results Overview
To realize the potential of an effective cybersecurity approach to successfully gain and retain customers’ trust and achieve broader organizational goals like revenue growth, firms must optimize their cybersecurity practices as a core component of their organization’s strategy and operations. Our assessment evaluates participants across four key competencies:
Strategy
Is your cybersecurity practice fully aligned with your organization's business outcomes?
People
Have you invested in training and expanding your in-house cybersecurity staff for ongoing protection as part of continuous exposure or cyber risk management lifecycle?
Process
Do you have thorough processes and workflows to ensure effectiveness of remediation efforts?
Technology
Are you building the right technological capabilities to support and enhance staff skills and processes to monitor and mitigate exposures across your attack surface?
Where is your firm today, and what can you do to optimize your organization’s cybersecurity strategy? Continue to see your personal results and recommendations.
Recommendations
Beginner
Intermediate
AdvancedYour maturity result: BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced
Beginner (0 to 41)
Firms at this level of maturity are executing only basic cybersecurity efforts, and most capabilities are either nonexistent or ad hoc. To improve, they must raise their level of institutional knowledge to create a consistent understanding of how cybersecurity supports business goals. They must improve the skills of their cybersecurity employees to understand how to balance support for those goals. They should also invest in tools and technologies to cover any gaps that exist in a cohesive, proactive security architecture.
Intermediate (42 to 51)
Firms at this level of maturity have processes to support cybersecurity programs but lack an overarching set of technologies to quantify and manage threats. To improve, they should introduce tools that allow them to make risk-based decisions aligned to business goals. They need to get to a position where they can mange these risks effectively. They must also develop their security employees to understand how they communicate with and support the business teams.
Advanced (52 to 60)
Congratulations, your score means that your cybersecurity efforts are Advanced!
Firms at this level of maturity have a portfolio of cybersecurity programs and technologies aligned to meet business goals. These firms have aligned cybersecurity and risk goals to support the business strategy, making cybersecurity a business enabler. Organizations with a high maturity level have more than just cybersecurity employees who are able to articulate business goals — they have aware and trained employees throughout the entire organization who understand cybersecurity risks. They aim to continually evaluate exposure risks and manage them effectively through a set of well-structured tools that measure, check, respond, manage, and mitigate threats.
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Methodology And Disclaimers
Methodology
In this study, Forrester conducted an online survey of 435 IT/compliance/security decision-makers in Europe responsible for planning, recommending, or approving purchasing of security technology and/or IT services and/or compliance with IT and data-related requirements. The study was completed in August 2024.
Disclaimers
Although great care has been taken to ensure the accuracy and completeness of this assessment, WithSecure and Forrester are unable to accept any legal responsibility for any actions taken on the basis of the information contained herein.