Organizations Lack Technology to Address Top Attack Types
Only three percent of organizations have the technology and only 10 percent have the skills in place to address today’s top attack types, highlighting a gaping hole in many organizations’ cyber defenses that can be discovered and taken advantage of by hackers.
According to a Tripwire study, ransomware has the potential to inflict the most significant damage to organizations in 2017, yet not even half of those surveyed have the skills (44 percent) or the technology (43 percent) to effectively address it.
“The results of this study highlight that there are very few organizations equipped to deal with all of today’s major attack types. Most organizations can reasonably handle one or two key threats, but the reality is they need to be able to defend against them all,” said Tim Erlin, senior director of IT security and risk strategy for Tripwire. “As part of the study, we asked respondents which attack types have the potential to do the greatest amount of damage to their organization. While ransomware was cited as the top threat, all organizations were extremely concerned about phishing, insider threats, vulnerability exploitation and DDoS attacks.”