Study Finds Asia-Pacific Region Leads in Security Breach Incidents, Outlines Other Global Cybersecurity Statistics
Hikvision on Strategies to Reduce Risk of Security Breach, Malware Attack
The 2019 Trustwave Global Security Report found that the Asia-Pacific region was a leader in the number of data compromises such as security breach in 2017, according to Security magazine coverage of the report. The retail sector was the industry hit the hardest, with 18 percent of incidences in 2017, followed by the finance sector (11 percent), and hospitality (10 percent).
Research findings are “based on the analysis of billions of logged security and compromise events worldwide, hundreds of hands-on data [security] breach and forensic investigations, manual penetration tests, network vulnerability scans and internal research."
“We are seeing the global threat landscape continue to evolve as cybercriminals deterred by advanced monitoring and detection systems go to extraordinary lengths to breach organizations by wielding new malware variants, zero-day exploits and social engineering savvy,” said Arthur Wong, CEO of Trustwave, in the article.
Other research findings include:
- Email messages containing malware lessened in 2018 compared with 2017.
- Malware is becoming more difficult to detect. From the article: “Sixty-seven percent of malware analyzed used obfuscation to help avoid detection, an astounding leap from 30% the previous year."
- 100 percent of tested web applications were found to have at least one vulnerability.
For more findings from the report, visit this link.
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