Q. IS RISK STILL BEING SILOED IN THE ORGANISATION AND WHERE DO THESE SILOS OCCUR?
» Yes, risk frequently remains siloed within technical departments, individual business units or isolated IT security teams. This usually happens when cybersecurity is treated merely as a technology fix rather than an integrated business function. Silos also emerge between internal operations and external management. To break these silos down, organisations must adopt standard frameworks like NIST that unify internal and external risk factors into a single, holistic risk profile. This is beneficial because it gives the entire business complete operational visibility so that there are no hidden enclaves and that in turn reduces the potential for those risks to become elevated.
WHAT IS PREVENTING ORGANISATIONS FROM ACHIEVING CYBER MATURITY?
» Outside of heavily regulated sectors, most organisations struggle to achieve a truly mature posture. A major barrier is limited resources; mid-market enterprises( typically under 2,000 – 3,000 seats) often lack the specialised skills, dedicated time and budget to maintain proactive risk management programs. Instead of executing a long-term strategy, they spend their limited bandwidth reacting to immediate threats, which then creates a reactive cycle that is hard to break out of and prevents the business from improving over time. Without structured frameworks and strategic oversight to optimise efforts, these constraints keep businesses from moving beyond basic defence to achieve true operational maturity.
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