Just 33% of IT leaders strongly agree that their own organisation is prepared to handle a cyberwarfare attack and respond to related threats.

87% of IT decision-makers are concerned about the impact of cyberwarfare on their organisations. This is a 34% increase on the last year.

Three-quarters (75%) of IT decision-makers believe cyberwarfare attacks will increasingly target institutions representing free press and independent thought. This is a sharp rise from last year’s 42%.

Only 53% of IT leaders believe that their government can defend its citizens and organisations against an act of cyberwarfare.

72% of IT leaders believe that the cyber capabilities of nation-state actors have the potential to trigger a full-scale cyberwar, with devastating consequences for global critical infrastructure.

Across the globe, IT decision-makers consistently point to three dominant state-sponsored threats: Russia (73%), China (73%) and North Korea (40%).