“…the data was sitting in an Amazon Web Services storage “bucket,” left open to anyone with an account, which are free to obtain.”
Threats are growing daily, from new IoT devices to employee and business partner exposures.
Last year was terrible for corporate victims of cyberattacks, with many large organizations making headlines over reports of major breaches. Ransomware attacks quadrupled to 4,000 per day from 2015 to 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
But confusion, complexity, and ignorance seem to be creating a state of paralysis.
- Is it the constant stream of new cybersecurity technologies?
- Is it all the security acronyms (DLP, APT, GRC, EDR, EUBA, etc.)?
- Or something else?
Whatever the reason, a high percentage of companies are not doing the basics.
The top 10 external vulnerabilities accounted for nearly 52 percent of all identified external vulnerabilities. Thousands of vulnerabilities account for the other 48 percent. All 10 internal vulnerabilities are directly related to outdated patch levels on the target systems.
However, good cybersecurity hygiene is now a fundamental business need. So don’t wait.
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