Businesses are reluctant to admit cybersecurity weaknesses because they fear reputational damage – but by choosing to hide their heads in the sand and ignore security vulnerabilities, they risking more significant damage to their brand if they do get hacked.

Analysis by cybersecurity and bug bounty company HackerOne suggests that almost two-thirds of organisations maintain a culture of cybersecurity through obscurity, hoping that weaknesses and vulnerabilities will remain undetected or simply won't causes issues. 

But by choosing to ignore vulnerabilities, organisations are leaving themselves open to cyberattacks and other security issues.