While many organizations feel more confident in their ability to defend against cyber-attacks, the opposite is true among the professionals charged with actually mounting the defense.  

That is the finding of a new study by the Institute of Information Security Professionals, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to raising the standard of professionalism in information security.  

The IISP found that over the past three years, the number of organizations that feel better prepared to respond to and deal with cyber-attacks and data breaches rose from 47 percent to 66 percent.