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TRENDING
IT MANAGERS
STRUGGLING TO KEEP UP
WITH CYBERATTACKS
As the abundance of cyberattacks is ever expanding,
IT managers are struggling to respond due to a lack of
security expertise, budget and up-to-date technology.
Chester Wisniewski, Principal Research Scientist, Sophos,
discusses the evidence from the report in more detail.
S
ophos, a global leader in network
and endpoint security, has
announced the findings of its
global survey, The Impossible Puzzle of
Cybersecurity, which reveals IT managers
are inundated with cyberattacks coming
from all directions and are struggling to
keep up due to a lack of security expertise,
budget and up-to-date technology.
staged, increasing the difficulty to defend
networks. One in five IT managers surveyed
didn’t know how they were breached and
the diversity of attack methods means no
one defensive strategy is a silver bullet.
Cybercriminals use multiple
attack methods and payloads for
maximum impact “Cybercriminals are evolving their attack
methods and often use multiple payloads to
maximise profits. Software exploits were the
initial point of entry in 23% of incidents, but
they were also used in some fashion in 35%
of all attacks, demonstrating how exploits
are used at multiple stages of the attack
chain,” said Chester Wisniewski, Principal
Research Scientist, Sophos. “Organisations
that are only patching externally facing high-
risk servers are left vulnerable internally and
cybercriminals are taking advantage of this
and other security lapses.”
The Sophos survey shows how attack
techniques are varied and often multi- The wide range, multiple stages and scale
of today’s attacks are proving effective. For
The survey polled 3,100 IT decision
makers from mid-sized businesses in the
US, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, UK,
France, Germany, Australia, Japan, India
and South Africa.
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