Cyberthreat Awareness 'High,' Preparedness Woeful: Palo Alto CEO

It’s “no secret” that corporate awareness of cybersecurity is “high,” Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora told a Morgan Stanley investment conference Monday. “I can’t imagine five years ago, you’d be asking the CEO, how secure is your infrastructure? And are you worried about the risk of cyberattacks?” Arora thinks there's "more of a focus on getting security right than there ever was,” he said. “We’re woefully ill-prepared for what could happen to the technology infrastructure in this country and around the world.” The cybersecurity “debate” has evolved from “whether I could be hacked,” to “if I did get hacked, how am I going to get back up again?” he said.