While digital transformation is understood to be critical, its rapid adoption, as seen with cloud providers, IoT and shadow IT, is creating significant cyber risk for most organizations. Today, these vulnerabilities are only exacerbated by misalignment between IT security professionals and the C-suite.

The research by CyberGRX and Ponemon Institute surveyed 900 IT security professionals and C-level executives covering financial, healthcare, industrial, public sector and retail industries.