Cyber readiness of Canadian manufacturing sector worrisome, says CATA VP

The state of cybersecurity in advanced Canadian manufacturing and critical infrastructure firms leaves a lot to be desired if a survey conducted earlier this year is representative. Although Canada has a national cybersecurity strategy and has been encouraging organizations to improve readiness since 2010, the recently-released survey of 208 firms had a number of concerning results: only 60 per cent of respondents said their firm had a written cyber security program; only 57 per cent had appointed a cybersecurity official (for example a chief information security officer to lead their efforts. The rest were led by someone with an IT background; only 30 per cent of respondents had a CISO, a written program and regular security audits, three elements report authors think defines a cyber secure mature firm;