Kill switch fears now rival ransomware as a top security risk for European businesses, Proton study finds
Brief
For years, the security team’s job has been to defend against cyberattacks. New research from Proton suggests that job now needs to extend to a very different kind of threat: the risk that a foreign government orders a US technology provider to cut a business off entirely.
A study of 1,500 business decision-makers across the UK, France and Germany, commissioned by Proton and fielded by Toluna, found that 73. 9% of respondents are at least somewhat concerned about a government-imposed “kill switch” cutting off access to their US technology providers. Critically, that figure is now statistically indistinguishable from concern about ransomware and cyberattacks, which stands at 74. 9%.
For security teams, the two threats are converging on the same risk register.