Cyber attacks becoming more frequent and severe – surveyJune 22, 2011 - 19:54 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Cyber attacks are becoming more frequent and severe, and the vast majority of businesses have suffered at least one data breach in the past year, a Ponemon Institute survey says. According to the survey, 77% of respondents say attacks have been more severe or more difficult to prevent over the past 12 to 18 months, while 78% say attacks are more frequent. The survey was sponsored by Juniper Networks. Only 10% of those who answered the survey say they had no data breaches and 53% say they had one to three. Given these numbers, 53% have low confidence that their networks would avoid attacks in the next year; 24% say they have high confidence they won't suffer attacks, the survey says. A third (34%) have low confidence their network infrastructure can protect against attacks. "We believe the fact that so many organizations are having multiple breaches is resulting in a low opinion about security preparedness and a low level of confidence they have to prevent a future attack," the survey says. The cost of 55% of the breaches was between $250,000 and $1 million, with 19% saying the cost was more than that, and 16% saying they couldn't determine what their breaches cost. Most of the incursions took place on mobile devices (28%) or on devices owned by business partners (27%). Another 20% took place in corporate branch offices and 16% at headquarters. Of those companies that did suffer attacks, 40% don't know where the attacks came from. The top three causes of security breaches are insider abuse, malicious software downloads and malware from a Web site. Employee laptops were the most common (34%) endpoint from which security breaches occurred followed by mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones (29%) and corporate desktops (28%), Network World reported. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |