Businesses Take 7 Months to Detect System Intruders
Corporations are taking an average of seven months to detect system breaches despite most having access to forensic information in their logs, Verizon has warned.
“That seven month window, the clues to the intrusion are there in plain English in the server logs,” says Bryan Sartin, vice president of Verizon's Research Investigations Solutions Knowledge (RISK) team, at the Australian Information Security Association (AISA) conference in Sydney. “There needs to be more information sharing. Ninety percent of crimes could be prevented with simple security measures.”