In early 2018, RSA commissioned the Cybersecurity and Business Risk Survey, executed by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), to learn more about the challenges and priorities of IT security and business risk professionals.

This report, which reflects select findings from the survey, is intended as a glimpse into the minds of security and risk leaders. It describes the pain these teams feel in pursuit of protecting their organizations’ digital assets and data, in the face of challenges from the forces of modernization, malice and mandates. Encouragingly, at the same time, it reveals another trend, suggesting that these teams are breaking out of their silos and starting to work more closely together toward their common goal of helping their organizations manage digital risk.