Somos FCC - Nº5

According to a report published by the Institute of Internal Auditors of Spain and six other European coun- tries (France, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Ireland), cybersecurity will be one of the main risks companies face in 2018, followed by data protection, regulation, digitisation, outsourcing, corporate culture, political uncertain- ty and generational transition. According to a survey conducted by PwC, 74% of companies are not sufficiently developed in terms of cy- bersecurity, and according to the in- ternal auditors’ study should be inclu- The main cybersecurity risks in companies See Instituto de Auditores Internos de España report View report on the State of Information Security 2017 Global Survey ded in the companies’ annual plans. On the other hand, according to PwC’s website, according to the 2017 State of Information Security Global Survey, since 2012, the ave- rage budget that companies spend on cybersecurity in the world has almost doubled, from 2.8 million do- llars to 5.1 million dollars. In Spain, investment by companies in informa- tion security has followed a similar trend, although somewhat more mo- derate, rising from an average of 3.1 to 3.9 million dollars. C O M M U N I C A T I O N C O M M U N I C A T I O N 64