Gartner Predicts 30% of Critical Infrastructure Organisations Will Experience a Security Breach by 2025

Gartner Predicts 30% of Critical Infrastructure Organisations Will Experience a Security Breach by 2025

DUBAI, UAE., January 5, 2022: By 2025, 30% of critical infrastructure organisations will experience a security breach that will result in the halting of an operations- or mission-critical cyber-physical system, according to Gartner, Inc.

Critical infrastructure security has become a primary concern for governments around the world, with the U.S., U.K.EU, Canada and Australia each identifying sectors deemed ‘critical infrastructure’, for example, communications, transport, energy, water, healthcare and public facilities. In some countries, critical infrastructure is state-owned, while in others, like the U.S., private industry owns and operates a much larger portion of it.

Ruggero Contu, Research Director, Gartner.

“Governments in many countries are now realising their national critical infrastructure has been an undeclared battlefield for decades”, said Ruggero Contu, Research Director at Gartner. “They are now making moves to mandate more security controls for the systems that underpin these assets”.

A Gartner survey showed that 38% of respondents expected to increase spending on operational technology (OT) security by between 5% and 10% in 2021, with another 8% of respondents predicting an increase of above 10%.

However, this may not be enough to counter underinvestment in this area