92% of EU businesses use at least 1 ICT security measure

Digital technologies are changing how people work and live and also how businesses conduct their activities or business models, but this brings additional challenges to our private lives and security in businesses. Businesses, for example, can implement a range of ICT security measures, practices and procedures to prevent incidents and to ensure the integrity, availability and confidentiality of their data and ICT systems.

To ensure the security of ICT systems and data, 58% of businesses make their employees aware of their obligations in ICT-related issues and 37% of the businesses have documents on measures, practices or procedures on ICT security.

In 2022, 92% of EU businesses used at least 1 ICT security measure to protect their ICT systems and data, and only 36% used 7 security measures. Most of the companies in the EU preferred to use strong password authentication (82% of EU businesses), data backup to a separate location or cloud (78%) and network access control (65%).
 

October marks European Cybersecurity Month, which this year focuses on social engineering: all techniques aimed at tricking a target into revealing specific information or performing a specific action for illegitimate reasons.

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