The survey – which encompassed professionals in the financial sector and DTCC clients – found 84 per cent of respondents identified cyber-risk as one of their top five concerns.
This represents a 25-point increase since the survey was last conducted in March 2014.
Moreover, 33 per cent of respondents ranked cyber-attack as the number one risk, an increase of nine per cent since March.
DTCC corporate information security officer Mark Clancy said no institution is immune from online threats.
“All of us need to become agile in response to these rapidly evolving threats by being able to share information about attackers’ activities between multiple stakeholders and shifting the model from individual institutions' static defences to dynamic community responses,” he said.
“This shift requires both the maturation of operational capabilities and public policy frameworks to be successful.”
According to the survey, other dangers include new regulation, which 64 per cent of advisers ranked among their top five concerns, and geopolitical risk, which was a major concern for 62 per cent of respondents.
The survey also suggested that professionals were becoming more pessimistic about the financial system’s stability.
A total of 37 per cent of respondents said the probability of a high-impact event in the global financial system had increased in the past six months, up 16 points since March 2014.
