The organizations cover 30 territories in North America, Latin America, EMEA and Asia Pacific: Australia,
Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany,
Hong Kong,
India,
Indonesia, Italy,
Japan, Malaysia, Mexico,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia,
Singapore, South Africa,
South Korea, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland,
Taiwan,
Thailand, UAE, UK, USA, and
Vietnam.

We looked at 31 different solutions across the five core pillars of cybersecurity protection: identity
intelligence, machine trustworthiness, network resilience, cloud reinforcement, and AI fortification.
Respondents were asked to indicate which of these they had deployed, the stage of deployment, and if these
solutions were not already deployed then what budgets had been approved, and the intended timeline of
deployment.

Each solution was assigned individual weightings based on its relative importance in helping safeguard the
applicable pillar. The scores for each organization were then derived based on the stage of deployment of
various solutions under each of the five pillars, with partially deployed solutions assigned a 50% weighting
and fully deployed solutions weighted at 100%.

The scores for each pillar are then combined and weighted to arrive at an overall cybersecurity readiness
score for each organization. The importance of each pillar was weighted as Identity Intelligence (25%);
Network Resilience (25%); Machine Trustworthiness (20%); Cloud Reinforcement (15%); and AI Fortification
(15%).

The respondents are drawn from 18 industries: business services; construction; education; engineering,
design, architecture; financial services; healthcare; manufacturing; media & communications; natural
resources; personal care & services; real estate; restaurant services; retail; technology services;
transportation; travel services; wholesale and ‘others.’

The Index is based on a double-blind survey carried out by an independent research company between January
and February 2024.