In its global survey, 7 Uncomfortable Truths of Endpoint Security, Sophos uncovered that that IT managers are more likely to catch cybercriminals on their organisation’s servers and networks than anywhere else.
According to the study, IT managers have discovered 37 percent of their most significant cyber-attacks on their organisation’s servers and 37 percent on its networks.
Only 17 percent were discovered on endpoints and 10 percent were found on mobile devices. The survey polled more than 3,100 IT decision makers from mid-sized businesses in 12 countries including the US, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, UK, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, India, and South Africa.
“Servers store financial, employee, proprietary, and other sensitive data, and with stricter laws like GDPR that require organisations to report data breaches, server security stakes are at an all-time high. It makes sense that IT managers are focused on protecting business-critical servers and stopping attackers from getting on the network in the first place and this leads to more cybercriminal detections in these two areas,” said Chester Wisniewski,…
