Navigating the path towards Cyber and Business Resilience.
2023 Cyber Resilience Report
Companies of all sizes will find this report to be a resource and tool to help inform Cyber risk decision-making in 2023 and beyond. Cyber resilience is a journey, best navigated in partnership and through teamwork.
Our Cyber Resilience Journey
The Story Behind Aon’s Cyber Quotient Evaluation (CyQu)
Cyber resilience is a journey. This article explains how CyQu has been redesigned to streamline the complex process of gathering underwriting information year over year. By aligning a market of insurers around a single information intake process, CyQu encourages greater efficiency, data-informed decisions, and collaboration.
Managing cyber across six featured risk themes.
This year’s report is a guide for leaders to benchmark their organization’s risk maturity against peer companies and to help make better decisions around managing cyber across six featured risk themes: cyber, operational, supply chain, insider, reputational, and systemic.
Building cyber resilience across industries.
Sectors often face a complex globally interconnected risk landscape and leaders should make decisions that demand rapid analysis and execution.
Finance and Insurance
Backup security continues to be an area of vulnerability for the sector, and U.S. companies reported deficiencies in almost 40 percent of the critical IT controls. This domain needs to be an area of focus in 2023.
Healthcare
No other sector must make security decisions that could impact the safety and wellbeing of patients like the healthcare sector. Mid-market and enterprise and global healthcare clients reported improved cyber risk profiles with the majority moving from “basic” to “managed”.
Manufacturing
Manufacturers enjoyed steady improvement in their overall cyber risk profile between 2020 and 2022. But resilience is still a work in progress, with U.S. manufacturers especially lacking significant business resilience IT controls.
Cyber Maturity by Region
Companies’ overall cyber maturity can differ per region. Learn more about the gaps, challenges and opportunities, including suggested steps leaders can take to build cyber and business resilience.
Aon’s CSO Viewpoint
Bridging the C-suite: Perspectives from Aon’s CSO
Cyber incidents can impact every area of a business. Dismantling the silos across the C-suite is essential if an organization is to increase their odds in winning the cyber battle. Because security and technology are discussed at boardroom level, the link between executive leadership and the CSO must be strong.
Build Ransomware Resilience
Ransomware Attacks are Up: 8 Steps to Build Better Resilience
After more than a year of declining ransomware frequency, attacks increased in early 2023. Underwriting security controls and assessments have helped mitigate attacks, but better resilience is still needed. These eight steps can help build that resilience.
Data Methodology
Behind the Data: Research Methodology
2023 Cyber Resilience Report is based on proprietary client data collected from Aon’s Cyber Quotient Evaluation (CyQu) and Aon’s Ransomware Supplemental Application and Operational Technology Supplemental.