Our latest cybersecurity research reveals some organizations are using cybersecurity as a differentiator to deliver better business outcomes. Those organizations that closely align their cybersecurity programs to business objectives are 18% more likely to increase their ability to drive revenue growth, increase market share and improve customer satisfaction, trust and employee productivity.

More than 4,700 executives were surveyed in March and April of 2021 in order to understand the extent to which organizations prioritize security, how comprehensive their security plans are, and how their security investments are performing.

This report goes into the general state of cyber resilience. At a glance, Innovation investment is growing, Cybersecurity basics are better, and leading organizations are getting better at preventing and fixing breaches.

Accenture details trends in cyber threats in 2019. It narrows it down to five key features of the 2019 Trendscape: 1. New threats are occuring from technology evolution and disinformation. 2:Cybercriminals adapt, hustle, diversify, and are looking more like states. 3: hybrid motives pose new dangers of ransomware defense and response 4:Improved ecosystem hygiene is pushing threats to the supply chain

This report covers trends in retail and hospitality in 2019. It covers Cyber espionage that impacts hospitality, how virtual skimming threat data poses risk to payment card data, and an analysis and comparison of point-of-sale malware companies.

The ninth annual cost of cybercrime study helps to quantify the economic cost of cyberattacks by analyzing trends in malicious activities over time.

From the report, “Without trust, the future of our digital economy and its nearly limitless potential is in peril. Piecemeal efforts to address cybersecurity issues—including the Internet’s inherent flaws, vulnerabilities from the Internet of Things (IoT), identity and data veracity and increasing digital fragmentation—have fallen short. Through their decisions above ground on industry-wide governance and their business architecture and technology infrastructure below ground, however, CEOs can have the influence necessary to collaboratively address these overarching issues.”

This report posits that “Companies are racing into the digital future adopting technology enabled operating and business models that drive bottom- and top- line growth. They are not prepared for the new cyber risks that come with the connected, data-driven future enterprise.” Read on to learn about solutions.

This report offers a fine summary of the Internet of Health Things, and covers the many issues related to this growing industry.

Accenture research reveals the five steps that can help business leaders not only close the gap on cyber attackers, but also continue to transform and embed security into the fabric of their organizations within the next two to three years.

In February 2018, Accenture Interactive commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the current and future role of the CMO in building and delivering experiences and the need for organizationwide collaboration. In July 2018, Forrester conducted 10 interviews and an online survey with 250 senior-level marketing decision makers from a range of industries to explore this topic.

“Across all technologies and capabilities examined in the survey, about 80 percent or more of insurance executives are “confident” or “extremely confident” about their effectiveness. That might seem reasonable given the progress, but a case can be made that leadership is overconfident. Attackers are becoming increasingly sophisticated and attacks can shut down the business or expose customer data. If about one in five attempted breaches is successful, that’s still a lot of breaches. And, given the findings that 45 percent of breaches are not detected for more than a week (9 percent require more than a month), that’s a lot of risk exposure.”

This report provides detailed information about Iranian Threat, Extended Supply Chain Threats, Critical Infrastructure, Advanced Persistent Threats, Miner Malware, and Ransomware.

Banking and capital markets firms have several things to be happy about in Accenture Security‘s comprehensive research study. Compared with the findings from last year’s report, the percentage of successful security breaches has decreased. The number of cybersecurity capabilities in banking increased from 15 to 19. Give this report a read.

Accenture and NowSecure, Inc. analyzed the mobile banking app threat landscape based on industry research, customer-facing mobile banking app vulnerability assessments performed by NowSecure, and Accenture’s industry knowledge and experience working with banking institutions. They collaborated to create a report that was designed to provide an understanding of the current- state security environment for customer- facing mobile banking apps, as well as answer some key questions about the state of mobile banking app security.