cyber trends
A REPORT FROM NTT HAS FOUND A SPIKE IN APPLICATION ATTACKS AS REMOTE ACCESS BECOMES A COMMON VULNERABILITY .
TT , a world-leading
N global technology services provider , has launched its 2021 Global
Threat Intelligence Report ( GTIR ), which reveals how hackers are taking advantage of global destabilisation by targeting essential industries and common vulnerabilities from the shift to remote working .
Report finds up to 300 % increase in attacks from opportunistic targeting
Healthcare , manufacturing and finance industries all saw an increase in attacks ( 200 %, 300 % and 53 % respectively ), with these top three sectors accounting for a combined total of 62 % of all attacks in 2020 , up 11 % from 2019 . As organisations race to offer more virtual , remote access through the use of client portals , application-specific and webapplication attacks spiked , accounting for 67 % of all attacks , which has more than doubled in the past two years . Healthcare bore the brunt of these attacks from its shift to telehealth and remote care , with 97 % of all hostile activity targeted at the industry being web-application or application-specific attacks .
The GTIR provides insights from NTT ’ s Cybersecurity Advisory that applies a maturity score of an industry ’ s security programme , with a higher number indicating a more mature plan of action . Concerningly , healthcare and manufacturing have relatively low maturity scores of only 1.02 and 1.21 , respectively .
These have decreased from 2019 ’ s baseline of 1.12 and 1.32 , while attack rates have significantly risen . Manufacturing has experienced a threeyear decline in scores , most likely due to changes in the operating environment and the evolution of attacks .
On the other hand , finance continued to demonstrate the highest maturity benchmark score for the third consecutive year , of 1.84 , a 0.02 decrease on last year , however .
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