Press release
Fortinet Global Report Finds 75% of OT Organizations Experienced at Least One Intrusion in the Last Year
95% of Organizations Expect OT Cybersecurity Responsibility to Shift from Directors and Managers to CISOs in the Next 12 Months SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 24,
About this update from Fortinet, Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"95% of Organizations Expect OT Cybersecurity Responsibility to Shift from Directors and Managers to CISOs in the Next 12 Months\nSUNNYVALE, Calif., May 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- John Maddison, EVP Products and CMO at Fortinet “Fortinet’s 2023 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report shows that while OT organizations have improved their overall cybersecurity posture, they also have continued opportunity for improvement. Networking and IT teams are under extraordinary pressure to adapt and become more OT-aware, and organizations are shifting to find and employ solutions that implement security across their entire IT/OT environment to reduce their overall security risk.” News Summary Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced the findings from its global 2023 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report. The results represent the current state of operational technology (OT) security and point to the opportunity for continued improvement for organizations to secure an ever-expanding IT/OT threat landscape. In addition to the latest trends and insights impacting OT organizations, the report also provides a roadmap to help IT and security teams better secure their environments. Key findings from the global survey include: OT continues to be targeted by cybercriminals at a high rate: While the number of organizations that did not incur a cybersecurity intrusion improved dramatically YoY (from 6% in 2022 to 25% in 2023), there is still significant room for improvement. In fact, three-fourths of OT organizations reported at least one intrusion in the last year. Intrusions from malware (56%) and phishing (49%) were once again the most common type of incidents reported, and nearly one-third of respondents reported being victims of a ransomware attack in the last year (32%, unchanged from 2022). Cybersecurity practitioners overestimated their OT security maturity: In 2023, the number of respondents who consider their organization's OT security posture as “highly mature” fell to 13% from 21% the year before, suggesting growing awareness among OT professionals and more effective tools for self-assessing their organizations’ cybersecurity capabilities. Nearly one-third (32%) of respondents indicated that both IT and OT systems were...