Around 84 percent of the global cybersecurity professionals surveyed would characterize their working relationship with the IT team as very good or good, whereas 16 percent of the global cybersecurity professionals surveyed feel that the relationship between security and IT teams is fair or poor as of 2021. While this highlights an overall cohesiveness between the departments, the 16 percent are somewhat alarming as these teams must constantly work together on tasks such as technology deployment, risk mitigation, and configuration management.
Working relationship status between cybersecurity department & other functional departments worldwide in 2021
This question was phrased by the source as follows: "How would you characterize the working relationship (i.e., communications, collaboration, common goals and objectives, etc.) between your organization’s cybersecurity department and each of these others?"
Percentage points below 100 percent are probably due to rounding.
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