Cyber security study: Seven Uncomfortable Truths of Endpoint Security

Sophos has published a rather interesting Study, which states that India had the third most Cyber-attacks in 2018, following Mexico & France. Also, more than 18% threats discovered in India are on mobile devices, almost twice than the global average. 

This study is based on surveying 3,100 IT managers across the globe and reveals the experiences, concerns and future plans of organizations in 12 countries and six continents. It provides deep insight into the day-to-day challenges IT teams face securing their organizations against cyber-attacks, as well as their experiences with endpoint detection.

Since we are from various industries, I am only highlighting the more important aspects that affect most of us:

• India third most prone to cyber-attacks with 76% firms hit in 2018
• Most cyber criminals in India are detected at the server (39 per cent) and on the network (35 per cent)
• 13 HOURS, is the time organizations took to discover the most significant cyber attack in the last year
• Fourteen per cent of IT managers who were victim to one or more cyber-attacks last year can’t pinpoint how the attackers gained entry and 17 per cent don’t know how long the threat was in the environment before it was detected
• Indian organizations that investigate one or more potential security incidents each month spend 48 days a year (four days a month) investigating them.
• Quote: “Server security stakes are at an all-time high with servers being used to store financial, employee, proprietary, and other sensitive data. Today, IT managers need to focus on protecting business-critical servers to stop cyber criminals from getting on to the network. They can’t ignore endpoints because most cyber attacks start there, yet a higher than expected amount of IT managers still can’t identify how threats are getting into the system and when.”

SOPHOS has published all their findings in a report published on their website: https://goo.gl/s4EDSs 

Lastly, I'll leave you these images to you as #FoodForThought. These are from the study itself.