Over the last twelve months the world has seen costly and destructive cyberattacks target organisations of all sizes regardless of industry or geography. With attackers breaching the world’s cyber defenses seemingly at will, the ability of organisations to successfully defend themselves against a proliferating threat environment has become uncertain.

The objective of this inaugural Tenable Network Security research study is to measure how enterprise IT security professionals view their organisation’s ability to assess cybersecurity risks and to mitigate threats that can exploit those risks. In doing so, Tenable has developed the industry’s first global cybersecurity assurance report card, which assigns indices and grades to responding organisations globally, by country, and by industry based on the responses of the security practitioners themselves.